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This Failing EV Motorcycle Company Wants to Pivot to AI, and Probably Sell Your Data

Oh, Damon Motorcycles, I don't know what to say about you anymore, as I feel everything has been said. Yet, there's always something to discuss, and at this point, it's mostly with a lot of side eye and "Oh, come on."

The once-promising electric motorcycle startup has been through it all over the last few years. It had the standard splashy entrance onto the world stage and subsequent debuts of forthcoming motorcycles at CES. It's then seen layoff after layoff, an IPO that went about as good as you'd imagine for a company without a product, its cofounder and CEO leaving abruptly after a host of ill-conceived decisions, hostile social media interactions, an incident with the ex-CEO's dog, it's other cofounder leaving and then returning to take the CEO helm, and not a single solitary motorcycle produced for those who gave the company a hefty deposit. 

There's also the case of the constantly moving production facility. 

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