Every start-up founder hopes he or she can make a product or service good enough that people will choose to buy it. Lots of those businesses fail - because they were wrong about people wanting it, or because they couldn't manage their cash flow, etc., etc.
Starsky Robotics was one of the world's most promising start-ups. But just this month its co-founder and CEO, Stefan, closed the doors.
He wrote a piece about why it failed. There were multiple factors, but he thinks the main reason is that artificial intelligence (AI) for autonomous vehicles can't live up to the hype. It may be ten years from giving us the safety we must have to achieve the big self-driving dream that many people thought was right around the corner.
It's hard seeing your dream die. But unless there's some big breakthroughs soon, the lack of substantial AI progress is going to kill more dreams than just Stefan's.
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