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I wonder if there's a correlation between over-funded companies, and over-engineered products?

• koolba 9y ago
  Correlation definitely, causation possibly. If you flip that around it's more clear: If you don't have excess funding, whether it's a VC funded startup or an internal project at an established company, you don't have the resource to epicly over engineer solutions; ergo it's only the ones with massive funding that do so.
• jandrese 9y ago
  IMHO, the juicer wasn't over-engineered, it was under designed. Whomever designed it wasn't given or didn't pay attention to cost constraints and didn't think hard enough about how to solve the problem in the most efficient manner. A well designed machine would probably be more like a roller on a worm drive mounted on some stamped sheet metal. It would look totally chintzy but get the job done and cost a fraction of what the Juicero cost. It would still be a stupid product that would probably fail, but at least the hardware wouldn't cost an arm and a leg.
  • AndyNemmity 9y ago
    It could be that by doing a roller system, it wouldn't be able to be sold at a premium and generate the funding they have. Some of this all works together, would they have been here with a workable, reasonable product? Probably not, they would have been just an appliance. But with a completely unreasonable product, they get to flaunt it's ridiculous merits as value. You could even imagine marketing around the full press having some bs nutritional value versus not.
  • nolepointer 9y ago
    >Whomever *Whoever (sorry)