His point was that domain experts invested in this company. What domain experts invested in Thearanos?

Goof point, But I think this barely means it has potential, or possibly commerciality, it still doesn't mean guarantee of success.

Cuil, magic leap, ... (never forget cuil)

Ah I remember going on cuil back then. Just read up on why they shut down and this is appalling: (from Wikipedia)

>... on the morning of September 17, 2010 "employees were told about Cuil's demise [...] and the servers were taken offline five hours later." Laid-off employees were told they would not be paid.

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