This is a terrible pitch deck, for an unrealistic plan. Their projections (slide 8, <a href="https:&#x2F;&#x2F;docs.google.com&#x2F;presentation&#x2F;d&#x2F;11gPEGbVzfPQolFgkPWyD2cy99aSCZmC-hXWuMvgvHL4&#x2F;preview?sle=true&amp;slide=id.gc70cf13b5_3_41" rel="nofollow">https:&#x2F;&#x2F;docs.google.com&#x2F;presentation&#x2F;d&#x2F;11gPEGbVzfPQolFgkPWyD...</a>) look like they were just copied from a Google image search for &quot;startup growth graph&quot; - they have absolutely no indication that they&#x27;re based on reality whatsoever.<p>Nick Bolton seems to be fixated on this idea that Synergy, despite all indications to the contrary, needs to be a startup, and he&#x27;s been making increasingly doomed decisions to that effect for years (hiring additional employees, moving to the high-rent Bay Area, etc).<p>What Synergy needs to do is swallow their pride, find a company like Google (or Microsoft, who are increasingly supporting open source, especially when it lends legitimacy to the Windows platform) who would be interested in funding an open-source project with no return-on-investment beyond the fact that their employees use it, and ask for a job there subsidizing it, the way successful open source projects like Linux have grown.