AE has the funds to do amazing things. It just the team doesn't look very organized or competent so far. Two CTOs have quit or fired (not sure). I hope they short this thing out soon, before the third CTO quit.
I guess there were huge disagreements with the old CTO, it went down pretty badly and from my observation its better for AE not to work with someone like him. But for Joel, I was really confident that things are going the direction with him, so its pretty sad that he left. Hopefully we will see someone that sticks to the project now.