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Lean In, Fall Down - The Rise and Stall of the Segway PT
Why did the Segway fail?
This episode of Dirt Nap City dives into the high-stakes history of the Segway PT, the machine that was supposed to revolutionize human transportation but ended up as a cautionary tale for Silicon Valley. Before it was the "mall cop" scooter, it was Project Ginger (or simply "IT"), a top-secret invention that had tech titans like Jeff Bezos and Steve Jobs predicting it would be more significant than the World Wide Web.
We start by revisiting the year 2001, when the world was obsessed with a mystery. Inventor Dean Kamen didn't just build a scooter; he built a…
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