If it is privately held and on the edge of extreme success you would think the good Dr. would endure whatever to become filthy rich.
Something is up.
Exactly. If I was involved in a good thing, I would stick around to reap the windfall.
Seems that there is a crop of modern snake oil "scientists" coming up with "amazing" breakthroughs, sucking up investors with no clue, only to later fizzle out due to .... problem. When one closely looks at the guts of the "venture" claims often include some "breakthrough" that is camouflaged nonsense.
It will be interesting to see what develops here, sounds interesting, seems like more PR than quietly proceeding to have product ready to sell.