From what I'm seeing, TAAL is not a company with a visionary founder, but a company that simply executes on so called "Satoshi Vision" (aka CSW vision). I think this is dangerous as a startup because the vision does not come from those who take care of day to day operations but from people who are detached from operations (for example CSW, who may or may not be a genius who created Bitcoin, but far from good at executing a business. Many of his past companies failed, and the success of Bitcoin doesn't count as business success because Bitcoin is a product, not a business). But overall, I've never seen an early stage startup succeed without a visionary founder. All these CXOs with fancy backgrounds are great people and I'm sure they can execute well, but I can't see any visionary in the roster. Basically, I don't see any "Steve Jobs" or "Gordon Moore" among TAAL CXOs.