The Daily WTF

Regardless of what industry you’re in, every startup hits that dangerous phase where you’re nearing the end of your runway but you still haven’t gotten to the point where you can actually make money with your product. The cash crunch starts, and what happens next can often make or break the company.

Nathan was working for a biotech company that had hit that phase. They had a product, but they couldn’t produce enough of it, cheaply enough, to actually make a profit. What they needed was some automation, and laboratory robots were the solution. But laboratory robots were expensive, and for a company facing a cash crunch, “expensive” was too risky. They needed a cheaper solution.

So they found Roy. Roy was an engineer and software developer, and Roy could build them a custom robot for much cheaper. After all, what was a lab robot but an arm with a

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