All the people who work at IOTA are contracted to invest in it so that they have a stake in its future and therefore they have a strong incentive to make it work. The team itself have been gather from around the world and are literally the best of the best. The guy who is behind the actual math is said to be one of only 3 people in the world who can do the complicated algorithm math behind the tangle technology. He is known as "the mathamagician" On top of that, there are major league companies around the world queueing up to work with IOTA and as I said, the Norwegian Government are also in talks with them. Just to say that the Norwegian Govt have some of the best business minds in the world which is why they own 4% of our planets assets and are the richest country per capita in the world. Those statistics do not happen by chance. If they are interested in IOTA then it means something.