then why not? Compensation, glory, and the satisfaction of helping naive GF backers awaits
Compensation, not really, I have little if any interest in Money these days

Glory, that's a double edged sword my friend, part of the reason I closed my own support forums is being "Spooky the laser guy" filled my email up with literally thousands of emails a week from users who asked a question, didn't like the truthful answer then proceeded to argue over a subject they openly admitted they knew nothing about. It started to impact the time I had with my own family so I simply stopped doing it.

Maybe take a look, when you get a chance.
I have the two Physics specialists they have onboard are pretty much unknown in the field of Particle Physics (Lasers) so while they both appear to be highly qualified chaps neither has any real world experience of Laser systems in any commercial venue.

Now if they had taken a recent opportunity and hired on Vasily Basov (former CLC Laser Scientist) or Shaol Ezikiel (adjunct professor of Laser Physics at Tel Aviv University) I'd be impressed. What they do have is people with a long history of making companies then selling them or people with marketing experience and PR skills.

Their staff profile overall reads like a company set up to sell stuff rather than understand or support the stuff they are selling for as long as it takes to make the company a viable sell on option.

I was having a similar discussion earlier with a chap on facebook, I said to him the same as I'd say here, Glowforges biggest problem is going to be support, cheap lasers sell because pretty much anybody can buy them, that also means the advertising can be directed at pretty much anybody from soccer moms to business hopefulls who don't like their day job. The problem with that is these are the very people who will listen to the advert, buy the machine,then make a huge mess of trying to run it / keep it running. This is what leads to the support calls, the same problem reduces as the cost of the machine increases as people handing over $10,000 will do more research than somebody handing over $2,000...it continues upwards from there, at $50,000 folks really want to know what your gizmo will do for them, at $500,000 they want an introduction to your entire living family (as well as your cat).

Back down at the $2,000 price point you have some folks who shouldn't have anything more complex than plastic scissors or a toaster but these are the folks who are expected to take delivery of a complex piece of fragile equipment that if miss-used can blind them or burn their house down. That's when support comes into play..thus far I have no evidence that GF have that support network required to service and deal with the number of customers they have let alone the forward planning for problems.

This is where I'm right with Scotty, my thoughts are once these things are in the field en-masse, they will sell on to somebody else before the problems come back to bite them