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I was asked to do a bit of robotics consulting for Solyndra. I figured that it wasn't going to work out when the guy we talked to took us to a conference room t
by spiritplumber 6y ago
I was asked to do a bit of robotics consulting for Solyndra. I figured that it wasn't going to work out when the guy we talked to took us to a conference room that looked too nice, and admitted that he hadn't been on the production floor in the next building before me and my buddy asked to go check that out.
We took the job anyway because it looked interesting, started doing the preliminaries, and when we went to get the test panels a couple weeks later, a FBI lady shooed us away from the parking lot as they were taping the building up.
Very weird.
- skuhn 6y agoI think that Solyndra was specifically a terrible choice for the government to make an investment in, but it was exactly the type of industry they should generally be investing in. But I guess at least Seagate got a nice building out of it.
- blackrock 6y agoSeriously? Solyndra was being hailed as the pinnacle of American technology, during Obama’s era. When it closed up shop, people were blaming China, again, for stealing American technology, and putting another good American company out of business. But from your description, it sounds like Solyndra was a scam to part investors and the American government, with their money.
- Wowfunhappy 6y agoI think skuhn put this nicely up-thread. There were both successes and misses, and investing is all about taking risks with the understanding not all of them will pan out. Apparently the program was profitable on net.
- skuhn 6y agoYeah, it was a little bit. [1] [1] https://www.theatlantic.com/politics/archive/2015/08/solyndra-what-a-mess/446784/ https://www.theatlantic.com/politics/archive/2015/08/solyndr...