> the guy never had a real success
iRobot has sold over fifty million Roombas to date. Packbots are also highly profitable and have saved many lives.
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That’s why I asked how do you measure success, they created the market but never were able to operationalize it or improve it from the initial iterations.
A decade of profitability as a public company seems pretty successful to me. Brooks was long gone by the time iRobot started its decline.
And brooks was one of three founders and not credited for the first iteration of Roomba. During his time the company barely broke even on and adjusted ebitda basis. His other company was a failure and this third is in a crowded marketplace.
Again as I keep saying. My reply was to someone who said he had three wildly successful companies. Yes iRobot created a segment but I still struggle to classify it as a wild success.