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maxxxxx on Oct 22, 2018 | parent | context | favorite | on: UBeam CEO Meredith Perry steps aside amidst B2B pi...

Reading the article sounds a little like what I read in the book about Theranos. Seems they "invented" something that in theory would be very useful but had really no technology to make this happen but went out anyway to get investment money. Then for years they desperately tried to make it work while lying left and right .

minimaxir on Oct 22, 2018 [–]

The difference between Theranos and uBeam was that uBeam's technology worked...

...in a highly controlled environment with specs making it unsuitable for practical consumer use.

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