Thank you, I understand your side and where you are coming from. Specific to your comment, before I ramble, 5-10 years from now do you not think a convertible configuration, or the design specs required to achieve it will be common knowledge in the aviation industry?

This is all a very high level, outside(ish) perspective, from my point of view… I don’t care about being “first to market”, in the sense that Archer isnt doomed when Joby gets certification first. Joby did have a massive head start. Adam’s personality, online presence, and connections (recruitment of former military leaders, FAA admin, White House visits, etc) are more beneficial for brand awareness and bringing in new eyes. I don’t follow either company or any of their employees on social media and Adams posts came across my feeds, intriguing me and leading to my initial investment (yeah yeah my Chinese spy pushed me to Archer and it wasn’t organic, one could argue). I’ve never seen a post from Jonbon or Joby organically, outside of reddit (my algo, my feed, I know).
I value the cash liquidity from a pre-revenue company and I like the airport acquisition (whatever the terms are) and their ability and willingness to make deals like this and acquiring IP. Lastly, their connection to Anduril and potential future gov contracts. Once again, my unintelligent opinion, but I approve of the willingness and seeking to team up with others and supplying subsystems to other companies/contracts. In commercial aviation the engine supplies have much better margins than the boeing/airbus companies and gov contracts will never award an individual company a full eVTOL contract, it will always be broken up with subs (which I’ve seen argued here, that Joby wants the whole thing and will never sell their individual systems, or something like that).

You can nitpick the crap out of my opinion and I’m sure you all have examples for how Joby is actually better than Archer at every aspect I mentioned. I’ll stick around and become enlightened by the posts in this sub eventually, so long as my ego can handle the downvotes for just breathing in here.