your track record isn’t saying: Trust me, give me time and money and everything will automagically end up being fine. That’s not how it worked out the last two times.
Good joke. I’ve used Marks products since the good old’ Amiga times and he always delivered. I’ve used BlitzBasic 2 (Amiga), BlitzBasic (PC), Blitz3D, BlitzMax and Monkey and they all helped me to be very productive. Indeed what’s Mark’s track record is saying that you can trust him to deliver a highly productive programming language.