(S9) - Weekend PT 5 - Bad Investments

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Laser kitchen knives. Sounds freaking awesome, right? That's what Angus Winchester though too. When he was approached by a startup looking for funding to get their laser kitchen knife products off the ground and to market he immediately thought that this could be a huge success. Knives that you don't have to sharpen? Don't have to clean? Don't have to really take care of at all? This is the damn future. Angus immediately invested $1 million into the venture for research, development, and marketing. However, while Angus knows a thing or two about cooking he knows very little about lasers. The fact is that lasers don't really work that way, and they are better at burning through things than they are at cutting them cleanly. So when the prototypes came out and Angus wanted to see his hard-earned money in action, all he got was a handle that kind of burned little holes in his steaks. Needless to say, Angus was pissed and never got to see a dime of profit.