As much as I hate to say this (especially since I know Greg personally, which as honest as I've been on this forum about my IRL persona), I think he has to go (good thing I'm not using my real name here ha). As a fellow developer, I have been in these kinds of disputes and it doesn't end well. This is not a disagreement about the technical fundamentals as we may have seen with other coin founder teams, this is an issue where the founders no longer trust each other, namely Dor does not trust Greg to deliver on deadlines, which continue to be delayed.
And sadly, Greg is pulling a typical developer move, trying to take credit for docs and pushing the technicals without real prototypes/demos, which honestly is something I've been guilty of doing myself. But as an investor, even though I made quite a bit in the early days, over the past few months I lost roughly $43k USD worth of AMPs and today I am officially out of this, but there is an upside.
First, I have to call out Greg on his bullshit. He is stalling, using funds to drive his own development, because he's a perfectionist and self-centered.
Second, this disagreement is super dangerous to Synereo - the development was heavily based on Greg's proprietary theories and code. So if Greg has to leave, he takes the only real code with him. Greg is trying to maintain credit on all the technical fundamentals, so he is essentially the technical team for Synereo. If they must part ways, which I believe is the only way forward), then what is left, a marketing team? A CEO who has no technical background whatsoever (though I think Dor is awesome at funding/marketing considering he's been pitching an empty promise for the past 2 years and despite that got huge funding and mainstream media press).
Dear Coinbiz,
A few comments:
1) Synereo has 3 full stack developers, 1.5 front-end developers, and has two new developers, with multiple academic degrees and rich backgrounds in math and physics, rejoining the project after previously leaving due to their doubts about Greg and his claims.
2) Greg is not taking the only real code with him. Everything on our GitHub is open source, though it is now clear the entire distributed server architecture is unworkable. What's there to take?
3) What we do have is all of the front-end user interface work that has been done, which we are now looking at the best way to wire up to existing, working technologies. Even if they're not as grandiose and utopian as Greg's claims about his tech were, they at least function on some level.
4) I have done much more than marketing and fundraising for Synereo, and on the smallest of budgets:
Beyond writing the
original manifesto and creating the vision long before Greg joined the project, I have done:
- Team Management
- Branding
- Creating and refining the Synereo Language
- Communications
- Writing and Editing (most texts on the site and in other official publications are mine)
- Graphics design and visual language with Noy
- Attention Economy model, presentations and (non-math) whitepaper sections
- Product definition and design, originally by myself and later with Noy, Eric & Dina
- Hiring, HR, and employee negotiation and compensation
- Social
- Legal
- Accounting (about 10% of my time went towards the issues around granting legal and accounting status to AMPs. This will end very soon and free up much of that time.)
- Finances and budgeting
- Business Development - creating partnerships and business opportunities, getting recognition for our efforts, and bootstrapping something that started as an idea in my mind into a real company with a supportive community of investors, supporters, contributors, and followers
I have delivered on each and every one of these aspects of Synereo while seeing that everyone else on the team was performing their duties to a high standard -- aside from those of my co-founder. If you have doubts about my ability to deliver again, with 30 times more resources, well... I don't blame you! These are uncertain times. I can only promise to do my best to get this right this time. Hopefully, it'll be much easier and quicker with existing technology, a full team that wants to work with me, and a new CTO that focuses on writing code and working with his team rather than soapboxing.
Thank you for your attention and support!