San Francisco tech company Forward, once worth $1B, abruptly shuts down

> and the kiosks that were open occasionally trapped patients inside.

I feel like the journalist failed miserably in not digging more into this. Like did it occasionally lock people in for half a minute? Was it events where people got stuck until rescuers could come and get them out?

> Per TechCrunch, a CarePod subscription cost $99 a month, and Forward didn’t accept insurance.

More likely, insurers wouldn’t fund this obvious garbage when pitched on the tech.

ik i’m saying this as a lay person but the ones that fail always seem to be the ones that try to do everything all at once and rely on some in the clouds abstract opinionated perceptions of what their big future should be like and how much more money is needed to make it happen and all it never ends up syncing with what people actually need to improve their life, maybe just try like nailing down a problem and creating a good solution.

Who is letting an AI kiosk draw their blood? That's crazy.

How was the needleless blood draw supposed to work?

When everything is a unicorn…