A message to Maryland and Iowa investors about 747's and Paradigm Shifts

This shouldn't be a long blog.

As a matter of fact it may be the shortest blog I have ever written.

I need you, each investor in GBT-C, to imagine the guys who built the first 747 Boeing airplane.

Yea, there had been a lot of smaller, neat airplanes, that preceded the 747, but suddenly or maybe over time someone, some group, decided to build the biggest, baddest, most capable, workhorse of an airplane ever attempted. 

They studied, they planned, they engineered, and they realized they could do it. 

They could build this incredible plane that could carry more people, further, faster, and more efficiently, than any other plane in history.

Then guess what, it hit them.

OK, we can build the plane but we need to now design the building, the tools, the infrastructure, to build the plane in.

Why? Because it was aviation as it had never been attempted at that level before. 

Aviation wasn't new, but the overwhelming audacity of producing an airplane like a 747 was unheard of.

Well guess what, that is what GBT is doing. 

No, that is what we have done.

We know how to build the 747. 

Hell, we had figured out by 2011 what had been missing in South Africa, what we had not gotten right in Gulfport, Mississippi, in 1999 through 2002, but by 2012 we had the plane down perfectly. 

We knew how to build the biggest, baddest, aquaculture system in the world, sustainable, green, re-circulating, efficient, better, cleaner, healthier, than anyone or any system in the world. 

No joke, no hyperbole.

But now we had to figure out how to build the structures to put it in. 

So, since May 2013, we have battled the system to build the housing of the most advanced aquaculture system in the world. 

And we now have it.

Despite despicable manufacturers, despite greedy and self serving contractors, despite redesigns, and revisions we are there.

Texas is up and the two modules, juvenile rearing facility, the bio-filter and all the supporting infrastructures in place.

Is it perfect, hell no.  But it is damn good. 

And it is better than any other commercial system  in the world. 

I suspect the first Boeing 747 cost more, was the least efficient, the most difficult, and the most frustrating plane ever built.

But it became the envy and the standard for the world and everything that came after.

That is where GBT is today. 

We have done the impossible. Is it perfect? Again, no. 

Is it the cheapest, most efficient, best way to go forward, no. 

But what we have today is better (by a factor of 100%) than anything else in the world. 

And we will get better. 

We will get better in Texas. 

We will become more efficient, more profitable, more productive, more integrated, in short, better at every level, but to get there, we had to go through this. 

Someone once wrote that Mozart wanted to create the perfect symphony. He spent his life trying to do so. But at the end he failed.

But in his attempts to write the perfect symphony and failing he did something unique. 

He wrote the best, perhaps the greatest symphonies ever written. 

Perfect, no. Great, yes.

An old acquaintance once remarked "don't let "perfect" get in the way of being damn good".

We are on the first true footsteps of changing the world. 

I cannot write each of you who has gambled, believed, taken a chance, risked your money, and in short, taken a leap of faith. 

But I want to take this night to thank each and every one of you from the 1 million dollar investor to the $25,000 player, for backing this effort.

The world needs us. 

I suspect by now you no longer need me or others to tell you how much trouble the oceans are in and how the world is short of food and particularly marine protein. 

75% of the fisheries of the world are over fished too almost biological extinction.

65% of the world's population depends on seafood, and despite what you may read or hear nothing and no one is out there that has an answer except maybe, GBT.

Last week the hero of the "new on land aquaculture for fish" who I thought was an idiot 9 years ago, but he was featured in Time Magazine, he was on National Public Radio, he was the, and I quote, "the future for fish farming" well guess what, he went bankrupt. 

His damn system was flawed, but he was to egocentric to listen. 

I wish we had done it faster, better, quicker, but we have done it. 

And we have done it in America, with American dollars, and no government hand outs. 

And we have done it in a country, where celebrities, and entertainment, and silliness, seem to be our greatest accomplishments. 

Think about that.

I have nothing against LeBron James, but his skill at dunking a basketball cannot, will not, feed the planet. 

GBT has the potential to feed the planet and do it the right, the ethical, the natural, way.

The challenges ahead will not be easy and any farmer can tell you that the vagaries of farming leave nothing certain. 

Hell, everyday Eduardo, our VP of production, reminds me of the challenges ahead. 

But we are here. 

I am not a socialist, I am a capitalist, but there is making money and then there is being obscene.

My grandfather, God love him, always said "pigs get fed, hogs get butchered". I did not understand him then, now I do.

God bless you all. 

Without each and everyone of you this could not, would not have happened. 

You all know my personal situation. I have held nothing back, I have been totally transparent. I have no secrets.

I truly believe we are on the verge of changing and helping the world in a huge overwhelming way, and I want to thank each of you for trusting, believing, and caring.

Whatever happens as we go forward, and we will go forward, in a big way, I promise each and every one of you will benefit from every aspect of what we have and will accomplish. 

I am so proud of all of you. 

You have no idea. 

I am so proud to be an American. 

I am so proud of you, our investors.

And please, keep praying for my wife.