> Building this infrastructure took a substantial amount of time..

> If anyone is interested in trying the Tachyon Transfer Algorithm we offer a storage transfer acceleration API like AWS does. Our SDK includes node, c++ and objc and could be used in a wide variety of applications

So it was a lot of effort, and now they're inviting Big-G and Cloudflare to contact them to possibly achieve a paltry 30%-ish speed increase for certain scenarios? Or are they inviting app devs who want faster video uploads to reach out? What is the actual use case where the sometimes 30% improvement matters and actually moves the needle?!

Why hasn't Tachyon been working with their prospective customers and warming them up the whole time, or at least working the social and investor nets and reaching out proactively already?

This strategy is kind of like being a dweeb at a poorly lit school dance and hoping the most popular girl at the dance somehow notices you're wearing shoes that let you float a centimeter in the air. Cool trick, bud.

Presumably it's not a $10/mo service contract. Is this really an effective strategy when building and selling to enterprise these days? To me it sounds like a risky and hard way to make less money than what is possible using tried and true product development strategies. To be fair, I have also made this mistake before. It was embarrassing enough as a solo-founder, and seems less forgivable with larger founding group sizes, because it means more folks agreed to support and follow such a sub-optimal harebrained scheme :)

You all sound like very capable software engineers, and I know it's both fun and satisfying to build and make The Thing.

Good luck, sincerely.

p.s. You may also consider pursuing some of the medium sized targets like Backblaze, Rackspace, Larry Ellisons Oracle OCI, or Microshaft Azure.

(sorry, I couldn't resist having some fun at the end, though the suggestion is serious!)