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Why are all these articles about Holmes' personality?
by xkcd-sucks 11y ago
Why are all these articles about Holmes' personality?
- wavefunction 11y agoWhat else does a chief-executive have? Number crunching is left to the CFO. Engineering strategy to the CFO. Domain knowledge to the CMO. Operating strategy to the COO. Did I leave anyone out?
- cant_kant 11y agoCIO ? My mistake.. ..that role has been outsourced to Bangalore.
- w1ntermute 11y agoThe second CFO was supposed to be CTO/CIO.
- danso 11y agoBecause she refuses to talk specifics about the technology. And the subtext is that Theranos has been able to attract such a high valuation based on her personality even when the technology isn't apparently there.
- revelation 11y agoAlso, have you looked at Theranos website? She is just.. everywhere.
- BinaryIdiot 11y agoThe sound of that is almost hilarious so I took a look. There are two pictures of her in the rotating highlights things and one on the company page. I clicked around on at least 10 other pages or so and didn't find any more pictures. Didn't seem like "everywhere" to me unless I happened to visit the few pages without her photo.
- revelation 11y agoThere are 3/6 in the rotating thing. She is the first face on Company, actually it's a one minute video of .. just her. Leadership is a jumbotron with a quote of her. Careers has another quote with bonus picture, I love this one: “The minute you have a backup plan, you've admitted you're not going to succeed.” Elizabeth Holmes is a category filter on their News page.