- Very Swiss centric
- No operational leadership
- No clear boundaries between teams and lots of in-fighting
- Very poor pay
- Managers don't have skills or experience to lead and nurture teams
- No implementation plan - too much focus on vision / strategy
- Lack of experienced individuals
- Producing tech to compete with community projects
- C-suite in ivory towers, rarely speak to lowly doers in the teams
- No commercial awareness for doing deal-making to really support projects in Cardano
- Very political relationship between other Cardano entities (Input Output and Emurgo)