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The past doesn't imply future success but Rony's was formerly CTO and cofounder of MAKO Surgical (robotic surgery), which was acquired by Stryker for $1.65BN. H
by pxlpshr 10y ago
The past doesn't imply future success but Rony's was formerly CTO and cofounder of MAKO Surgical (robotic surgery), which was acquired by Stryker for $1.65BN. He has relevant domain experience and a track record. I'd bet on him.
He also seems like a very genuine guy to work with based on the interviews I've seen. If you're going to invest as much money as they've raised, you better like spending time with the person putting it to work.
- mikeryan 10y agoSegway then?
- drumdance 10y agoSegway wasn't a scam. It just didn't take off like people predicted.
- puranjay 10y agoSegway wasn't crap technology. Just overhyped and overpriced.
- mikeryan 10y agoim not comparing Segway to Theranos but to Magic Leap which even has a very similar founder story and may find its niche much slimmer then investors thought.
- puranjay 10y agoThat's a big possibility. People generally don't like to wear big, bulky things on their heads.
- cb18 10y agoI don't think there's any doubt that the game plan is to shrink these devices as much as possible, provided investor interest/market derived revenue can sustain things to that point. It's interesting how we've seen this shrinking form factor theme play out in the "segway sector" recently with the popularity of "hover boards." I'm not sure if that's a genuine new paradigm of human machine interaction or just a confluence of trendiness, fun, and much lower price than a segway.