Thanks for writing this, I enjoyed every one of these. Something that jumped out at me from these attempts is the lesson that when you want to take on an entrenched business model, you need to do it in a way that isn’t directly at odds with the existing model. Secondly, you seemed to learn that and apply it brilliantly. I would love to know what went on behind the scenes of those banks deciding to pull the pin on your idea for startup forge.