I worked for a competing biofuel company and our story reads very similarly to Kior&#x27;s. Aside from the internal problems that everyone has, the price of a barrel of oil moving from $100 when we were founded to $180 while we were fundraising to $60 while we were trying to commercialize just wrecked our story and business model. Nice article though. I&#x27;m nostalgic and tempted to try again focused purely on speciality chemicals.