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I've always found it odd how the media puts so much emphasis on the founder prior to success or public release of the actual product. I can't help but think if
by colmvp 10y ago
I've always found it odd how the media puts so much emphasis on the founder prior to success or public release of the actual product. I can't help but think if Holmes were a different demographic (i.e. an Asian or Black man), they wouldn't be making a movie about this.
- arcticfox 10y agoWell, the entire point of this story is how unwarranted hype can cause disaster, which seems like you should like it then? I'm not exactly sure what point you're making with the minority mentions though. Do you mean there would not have been the disaster-inducing hype in the first place if the founder wasn't a well-connected white person?
- entee 10y agoMaybe, though she's already not the stereotypical rich white young male founder. She does check 2/3... I still think the story of the rather epic rise and fall of a company that promised so much, achieved an insanely high valuation, then turned out to be essentially a fraud makes for a pretty good plot. I'm guessing if someone were to make the movie at all, the ethnicity or gender of the founder wouldn't really overshadow the sheer weirdness of the story.
- danso 10y agoYou find it odd that the media would focus so much on the person who has had the most singular and direct influence over a controversial company's decisionmaking? As an Asian, yeah, sure, I'll definitely agree that Asians don't get much media/movie treatment. Not sure I see your point. Who do you want the media to focus on in the Theranos case?
- ctvo 10y agoI think the op is saying they wouldn't be interested in the story at all if it wasn't a white woman protagonist.
- danso 10y agoPerhaps if Holmes weren't a photogeneic young white woman, she wouldn't have received the same attention from VC and immensely influential U.S. political players, which would also reduce the amount of media attention she ultimately got. Hard to separate the variables from this equation.
- tamana 10y agoGender likely didn't help with VC/political players -- that was primarily family connections from Holmes dad. The media hype probably got a boost from gender.