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> This looks like the "move fast and break things" crowd trying to run a medical lab. No, I don't think that's fair to the "move fast" crowd. This looks more l
by linuxkerneldev 11y ago
> This looks like the "move fast and break things" crowd trying to run a medical lab.
No, I don't think that's fair to the "move fast" crowd. This looks more like a bunch of politically connected country club types trying to "brag" a startup. Eg: Board of Directors = Henry Kissinger, former Secretary of Defense Bill Perry, former Secretary of State George Shultz, etc.
These people are used to manipulating the system at the expense of the public and getting away with it. I presume they expected to be able to achieve the same with this as well.
- danieltillett 11y agoThey nearly did. If it wasn’t for some relatively junior officer who insisted back in 2011 that Edison had to be run past the FDA first they would have got away with it. It was a close run thing and really a work of evil genius.
- trhway 11y ago>If it wasn’t for some relatively junior officer who insisted back in 2011 that Edison had to be run past the FDA first they would have got away with it. Pentagon Wars 2.
- joering2 11y ago> These people are used to manipulating the system at the expense of the public and getting away with it. Quite heavy accusations -- anything substantial to actually prove it?
- TazeTSchnitzel 11y agoTo some extent, this is just what powerful politicians do.
- madaxe_again 11y agoHave you ever heard of Henry Kissinger?! The man practically wrote the book on realpolitik (although he didn't, von Rochau did)!
- forgetsusername 11y ago>Quite heavy accusations -- anything substantial to actually prove it? Of course not. But around here, Silicon Valley is always innocent and "doing good"; the outside forces are the problem.
- madaxe_again 11y agoCorrect. Holmes is a figurehead being used by a group of "interested individuals", as I've been saying since Theranos started appearing in the news. It may not have been blindingly obvious to most, but coming from a place where I am intimately familiar with the machinations of the plutarchy, this immediately struck me as a simple "let's screw with the market" type scam. This makes double sense when you consider that between about 15 and 10 years ago when Theranos would have been brewing in the minds of the old boys club that run it, biotech was considered THE hot stock area among the overmonied class. They've cashed in, neatly. Theranos is absolutely nothing special - apart from perhaps being a special interest entity. The thing is, they won't have been setting out to create human suffering - it won't have even crossed their minds that that would be a side effect - they will just have been thinking about the market, and how to separate their less guileful chums from their cash. Theranos' medical negligence is "just collateral damage".
- wwwdonohue 11y agoIt's the "move fast and kill people" crowd.
- striking 11y ago"Move fast and break people."
- hockeybias 11y agoI think you are shifting WAY too much of the blame to the investors.
- LeifCarrotson 11y agoYou can manipulate people, but you can't manipulate reality.
- drdeadringer 11y agoFor some, it's a "reality distortion field". For others, it's a "people distortion field".
- LeifCarrotson 11y agoYou can manipulate people, but you can't manipulate reality.
- maxxxxx 11y agoSounds a little like the Carlyle Group. Stuff your board with political heavy hitters and something good will come out at the end.