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Hardware's brutal week: iRobot, Luminar, and Rad Power go bankrupt

12/19/2025 • 33 min

The hardware world had a brutal week, with iRobot, Luminar, and Rad Power Bikes all filing for bankruptcy. Each company faces its own mix of tariff pressures, supply chain issues, and shifting markets, but together they tell a larger story about the challenges of building physical products in an era of global trade tensions and cheap overseas competition. From… Play episode

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