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Thank you. You have refuted your own argument ("nobody could straight up dupe their way..."). Folks like Madoff are successful because they take advantage of f

• AndrewKemendo 11y ago
  That's not a straight up dupe - like the OP claimed about Holmes: Holmes is all they have: a PR-friendly cargo-cult attempted zuckalike She has no record.
  • 7Figures2Commas 11y ago
    People are straight-up duped all the time. Just read the Vanity Fair link I posted. You can find countless other stories like this. Again, investors in the U.S. are defrauded to the tune of tens of billions of dollars every year. Do you honestly believe that all the perps have stellar track records? As it relates to Holmes and Theranos, it should first be noted that nobody really knows what's happening, so I don't think anybody can legitimately claim that Theranos is a scam at this point. But to say that Holmes has "no record" is silly. One might have good reason to question how meaningful her accomplishments are and her qualifications to run a business like Theranos, but she comes from a politically-connected family, attended an elite prep school and was a President's Scholar at Stanford. Before she ever reached the age of 20 she had access to, and could command the attention of, powerful and influential people most of us will realistically never be able to call on.