Hey Lee, absolutely fair comment on broken links. Reality is that with a small team, we daily prioritize bug fixes so we can get out of beta over site structure elements. We're releasing two products next week, and most site issues (fingers crossed) SHOULD be fixed by then.

As far as the team, that's an easy one to answer. I was founder and CEO at b5media which, while not big now, was the second largest blog network in the world (40MM monthly readers) and the largest WordPress install outside of wp.com for the longest time. Know the old school team at Automattic well from those days, and have spoken at dozens of WordCamps. Also wrote the first business book on social media, and have invested in several of the larger WP companies out there :)

Terry, the other founder and our CTO, was lead dev at b5, has contributed gobs of code and plugins and is widely recognized as one of the best WP devs out there.

Our advisory board includes top folk in the community, including Aaron Brazell (WordPress Bible, WPEngine, b5media) and a whole host of others.

In short, this is OUR community, and the reason we're releasing the products we are releasing is to make the management of WP for regular WordPress users a crap tonne (technical term) easier so folk can just get back to the fun stuff.

Those tools will get rolled out to devs and hosts as well, but our first priority is average users. Hence BackupPress's pricing because as many people have noted in the comments: who wants to pay more for backups than they do for hosting?

Either way, have included my contact info above Lee, so feel free to look me up or just reach out. Apologies that the sites don't meet your expectations yet, but I hope they will by the time this month's three products launch!

J