Kamen blithely forecast that by the end of 2002, his enterprise would be stamping out 10,000 machines a week. Meanwhile, his best-known backer, venture capitalist John Doerr, predicted Segway would rack up $1 billion in sales faster than any company in history.
I'm actually very bullish on the iPad, and the category of touch/tablet computers... but couldn't resist pointing out the similarity to Doerr's Segway boosterism.
Kamen blithely forecast that by the end of 2002, his enterprise would be stamping out 10,000 machines a week. Meanwhile, his best-known backer, venture capitalist John Doerr, predicted Segway would rack up $1 billion in sales faster than any company in history.
http://www.wired.com/wired/archive/11.03/segway.html