So much fund-raising leaves him little personal time, he said.
"They are in the middle of so much funding pressure".
"There has been so much funding and so much science in big institutions in 30 years, but it hasn't moved the needle".
Why is there so much funding for hugely expensive cancer treatments, even when they are ineffective, and so little for research into palliative care and support?
Ultimately, a pragmatic consideration applies: The new administration has only so much funding remaining to rescue the banks, but likely not enough to launch a more aggressive intervention.
"Oil produced so much money and money produced so much funding for super studios, gorgeous women hosts and coverage that is nothing like what a free press should offer," he argues.
With so much funding relocated to the minister's discretion, with long-term projects, programs, venue viability, jobs and livelihoods on the line, fear of funding reprisal is palpable.
It pledges to triple the number of alcohol treatment places for repeat offenders, but the funding of such initiatives must be in doubt when so much funding will have to go into maintaining a record police force of 141,000, which senior officers doubt is necessary.
But such opportunities are comparatively rare because, she says, in Portugal "the market is not that developed and there is not so much funding".
For one thing, the company has raised so much funding even the founders didn't own Mark-Zuckerberg-like-equity in the company.
The latter, you might argue, could just be alleviated by the fact that so many of these companies are getting so much funding, with some already reaching close to billion-dollar valuations.
