The biggest threat to AM at present is the sheer lack of shareholder confidence. In my opinion this is an easy problem to solve, it only needs a few words from friedcat little and often.
I don't see how shareholder confidence is a threat to the company. AM is not looking to do another IPO or asking for support from shareholders in any way so if people want to dump shares cheap it's really not a problem for anyone but the seller. Customers don't care if shareholders get fed or not and there are lots of folks who would love to get a piece of the action for cheap. We are in a big crunch, AM doesn't have to destroy all of the competition, just weed out all the weak ones and pre-order garbage out there. The new Cointerra offering is just begging to fail like so many others. Pre-orders and other garbage needs to end, but good companies running tight ships should survive the AM assault.
You are forgetting that many shareholders have been very helpful in the sales (and also this) thread - both by helping with technical problems / other requests and also silencing the trolls. And that is absolutely necessary looking at the quality of AM's sales rep.
I can only speak for myself: I have not lost any confidence in AM but I am more than annoyed with the silence. At least a free hug from time to time (w/o disclosing any info that might help competitors with their strategic decisions) would paint a completely different picture.
Imho this venture can only turn out in 2 ways for the shareholders: 0 or moon. Of course there is the 3rd possibility to get out right now. But I for myself will not. Let the ship either sink or learn flying; I will stay on board.
if it doesnt go to the moon and even taking into account they've paid out more than people invested in the IPO. AMs failure would be a sign that every company on the securities forum is a failure. which all have been besides AM