Build the Showcase Facility First
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The CEA failure pattern in which a startup raises moonshot capital, builds a flagship facility before locking offtake, and discovers unit economics in production rather than in spreadsheet. Plenty, Bowery, AeroFarms (first round), and AppHarvest are the canonical exhibits; the antipattern defines the 2023–2025 vertical-farming consolidation.