I remember a few years ago when Musk visited Boston and it was clear he visited Starry. The idea at the time seemed like it should work out: Connect Starry devices to Starlink sats. Feel like that was forever ago but I probably waited around 6 months before I realized it wasn't going to happen. That was probably one of the few chances they had, but today CEO's seem to only want a $10B exit. Many such cases of missed opportunities.

I'm not surprised that many of the 2010s class of Boston based startups that haven't SPAC'd or M&A'd just aren't making it. I genuinely feel like that window is now closed since we have moved out of a ZIRP and you're probably going to end up in the dustbin. Datarobot, Bevi, Zipcar all come to mind. Some of them are genuinely great ideas but the iron was hot to at least SPAC by 2020, and if you missed it the train left.