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Re: Geo2014 post# 50107

Wednesday, 02/15/2017 1:09:39 PM

Wednesday, February 15, 2017 1:09:39 PM

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I agree on Fly-B as a valuable contributor!

Fly, do you have a reference to cite on the Verb/Titan roundtable you mentioned? If we can look back at it, maybe there are clues in there which make more sense under today's circumstances.

There are clearly a lot of factors which hint at a Verb partnership of some sort, but I still don't see the smoking gun to prove they aren't coincidences within a small technological circle of surgical robotic players. J&J (Gary Pruden) made a statement months before Verb existed about their robot being "in development" as opposed to saying "will be developed." When Verb was announced, Andrew Conrad (Verily CEO) said “We expect to work closely with pharma, biotech, medical device and diagnostic companies." Maybe he was indicating a plan to outsource development completely, and maybe Titan was a target acquisition all along. I'm still looking for more conclusive evidence. And the shutdown last year is what bothers me most about a sugar-daddy scenario. That part doesn't add up.

I'm okay with either outcome - independent launch or M&A/Buyout - as long as it gets me substantially closer to retirement.