I probably have a **lot** of work to do to digest my experiences, but the quickest answer that is probably both most complete and most vague is: most problems were connecting to funding. either too much or too little, or problems stemming from the source of the funds. Yet again a reason why I'm cautiously optimistic about the ecosystem that is attached to Bitcoin. The "physics" of the funding situation here is entirely different. For one stupid example: you could have a weirdo freedom tech genius who was never able to attract VC money for his whole career because his work wouldn't 100x an initial investment. He buys a ton of bitcoin in the early days out of pure ideological alignment. He can now self-fund or fund others like him - and he didn't get the money via some cantillion pipeline or by manipulating and vampiring off anyone, so chances are marginally better that he's not a piece of shit. Hard to predict exactly what's downstream of that, but it also seems hard to imagine it would be worse than the current landscape.