All of us have to maintain detailed bios when seeking funding, trying to build a team, or building corporate partnerships, all of which appear to be on the table.
All of us have to maintain detailed bios when seeking funding, trying to build a team, or building corporate partnerships, all of which appear to be on the table.
Instead they invest based on our technology, most of which (and eventually all) we make publicly available. You may not be able to judge it, but any potential partner has people who can. One of the things that encouraged us in our long road is that the more senior and more skilled the reviewer, the more they loved the Mill. Quotes like "This thing is the screwiest thing I've ever seen, but it would work - and I could build it".
As we grow there will be more place for beginners, but not yet. Mind, that's beginners as in concept understanding, not beginners as in age or degrees. I'm a dropout, and this year we added an intern in Tunisia who's still finishing his exams. We let people self-select, we don't try to persuade them. And we don't pay them, so only the convinced join.
In a way, at the top of engineering things work much more like they do in the arts: you are judged by your portfolio, not by your background or education.