A sentence in there brings up an interesting point. What's next for Perry?
Good question and one I'm interested to see myself.
All my opinion of course, but Mark Suster's (not Cuban) deletion of his "I'd fund her next company" posts tells you the opinion within the primo VC community of her. Normally having a failed startup, if you follow the 'rules', can be viewed as a positive, you're experienced, know mistakes to avoid, built up contacts who know and trust you because you dealt fairly and honestly with them, a tech team who will follow you and back you because you backed them when times were tough - but how much of that do you think applies to Perry? More, I wouldn't be surprised if her exit from the company was not done in a 'calm and professional manner', and on top of how she may have acted with the VCs in the past (I have some stories there I would love to tell but frustratingly cannot, though Dave's late 2017 publicizing of her Twitter argument with a prominent VC might give you a taste of things), there may not be many in that community who want to work with her. The only way that changes, I think, is if somehow uBeam sells for a sizable amount, and even then I'm skeptical. Senior tech people won't want to work with her, IMO, so you won't have a chain of competent people like uBeam had (Berte, me, Taffler, Chandler, Pendergrass) to keep things propped up and lend legitimacy in front of a VC. So I could be wrong, but I don't see any significant funding, or any talented tech teams, beating the door down.
I'm wondering about your crowdfunding idea, it's possible, and the general public are easily led on complex tech (see Energous etc), but having worked on crowdfunding campaigns, holy hell they are a lot of work to do well and require discipline and consistency. I'll say no more on that.
Now remember she's been CEO with the power to hire and fire since college, never had a "regular job" with a boss, following instructions, being in by 8 and staying until 5, 5 days a week, every week, being held to metrics and expectations and the same rules as "little people", so while I think there's a potential for a role in marketing I don't see how that happens now. So is there a job where getting the job, and keeping it, are predominantly based on media and PR rather than achievements? With no standard 9 to 5, or boss to tell you to do your job? Where hare-brained unrealistic schemes and exaggeration are the norm, and you are rarely held to account for prior promises, and being a 'victim' is a benefit?
Hmmmm. Politics anyone?
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