Kickstarter surprised everyone last month when it hired technology journalist Mark Harris to look into how one of the most funded projects in the platform’s history, the palm-sized Zano drone, combusted after less than a year. The result of Harris’ work, sent first to backers and then published on Medium, is proof Kickstarter got its money’s worth. Harris’ investigation totals 13,000 words and describes in excruciating detail how the team behind the Zano, Torquing Group, ended up collapsing under the weight of its campaign’s success.
Torquing raised more than £2.3 million ($3.6 million) in November 2014 to produce 15,363 finished Zano drones within just six months’ time. By October 2015, the company had shipped only 600 units to…
