> Everything can be "sold" How do you sell having lost $50M on research which ultimately went nowhere? If you can't, then how do you guarantee that your resea

> Everything can be "sold" How do you sell having lost $50M on research which ultimately went nowhere? If you can't, then how do you guarantee that your research will always bear fruit? The bottom line is: You have to be willing to fund MASSIVELY-expensive losses in addition to wins in order to make real progress. Scientists aren't magicians. For every success there are countless failures which you don't hear about.