They let the fox in. But they didn’t have to. They could have try to raise money without such a sweet deal to MS. They gave away power for cloud credits.
> They let the fox in. But they didn’t have to. They could have try to raise money without such a sweet deal to MS.
They did, and fell, IIRC, vastly short (IIRC, an order of magnitude, maybe more) short of their minimum short-term target. The commercial subsidiary thing was a risk taken to support the mission because it was clear it was going to fail from lack of funding otherwise.
