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For the interview, see page 40
How is your organization cHanging
tHe game witHin tHe industry?
Our force-sensing film technology is unlike any-
thing else out there and enables some amaz-
ing things: you can turn a solid sheet of steel
As much as I'd like to take credit
for our shift from a surgical
device company to a technology
company, I was lucky enough to
have a perfect storm of potential
partners reaching out to us out
of the blue from other industries
and a great early investor who
saw where we could go.
Epiphanies are great, but
sometimes you just need
the right person to knock
you over the head.
into precision operator interface, have a vehicle
sense the size, velocity, and penetration of a
projectile impacting it, and do remote-operated
surgery in the field among other applications.
This encourages our partners to think outside
the box.
wHat was your 'aHa' moment or
epipHany tHat you tHink will
resonate most witH our readers?