I think this is their (hopefully final) smackdown
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There were some things that i liked about NP (his drive - seemed on a mission), but the thing that always bothered me a lot was his brash, fighting tendencies, and his endless stream of pie in the sky claims. They're exciting, but never seemed totally appropriate. The whole renegade thing may work at a startup whose success is just marketing based, but for a product that involves human trials and an incredibly bureaucratic risk averse organization (FDA), it is the recipe for a disaster - and we're eating the disaster cake right now.
Again, my buddy who built 2 companies in the healthcare space told me that "you need to swallow your pride with regulators, and just get the win from a business standpoint, even if you have to lose with your pride". I pray we're solving the issues - because if we don't get off the FDA's #$%& list, no serious investor will touch the company.
My gut is that this is why we have no partnership offers yet - no real organization is going to align with a company who is battling the FDA.