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Wow, not mincing words. I think we've found our first dead unicorn of 2016.

• bahador 11y ago
  How many employees do they have? I would imagine that the impact of a dead unicorn would be directly proportional to the number of employees it had.
  • knd775 11y ago
    A quick google search suggests around 500.
    • whbk 11y ago
      142 on LinkedIn - guessing whatever number you found is inflated by people working in clinics that do Theranos tests or something along those lines?
      • jsprogrammer 11y ago
        Maybe LinkedIn doesn't capture every worker? You think they have greater than 30% penetration into the market?
        • whbk 11y ago
          I've actually had the (dis)pleasure of doing a fair bit of work in this area and have found LinkedIn to be pretty directionally accurate - for tech companies, I'd ballpark it at closer to 80-90% in most cases. They may very well be one of the outliers - I typically saw that in businesses structured in a way that made it readily understandable (ie 75 core employees, but hundreds of hourly warehouse employees without LinkedIn accounts). Not sure if Theranos has such a structure - perhaps the medical/research side is much less likely to have LinkedIn accounts than the tech side.