[the-pigeon]

How so?

Hardware startups have been bought before. This isn't a unique event.

I worked for a hardware startup for a couple of years and VCs being cautious about the category is very well deserved.

It is easily an order of magnitude harder to develop a successful hardware product than a success software product. And even after you've sold a million of them a design defect could show itself that makes all million of them break and destroys your entire company overnight.

It's doable but very hard.