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"She has also been talking with Jason Blum, ... about a potential documentary that would chronicle her life and career" This is her priority right now?? For a
by joelS 10y ago
"She has also been talking with Jason Blum, ... about a potential documentary that would chronicle her life and career"
This is her priority right now?? For a while it has been clear she is more interested in self aggrandizement than ensuring her technology actually works.
- jszymborski 10y agoI'm wondering if this is maybe a response to the film Adam McKay ("Anchorman", "The Big Short") is making. http://www.theverge.com/2016/6/9/11896534/jennifer-lawrence-adam-mckay-theranos-movie-elizabeth-holmes http://www.theverge.com/2016/6/9/11896534/jennifer-lawrence-...
- downandout 10y agoShe's quite likely going to be indicted soon. $400 million fraud cases tend to not go unnoticed by the DOJ. Getting her story out may well be her priority.
- alva 10y agoI suspect the likelihood of receiving an indictment from the DOJ is somewhat linked to the depths of her ties to powerful politicians, present and future.
- downandout 10y agoI'm not sure they're on her side anymore....those people may actually want her indicted.
- forgingahead 10y agoDon't worry, Comey will not recommend prosecution so everything will be A-OK
- 1024core 10y agoDid you see the composition of her board? She's got some heavy-hitters there. No chance of an indictment.
- jacquesm 10y agoThat may well work the other way around. The board will be very happy to find a scape-goat and get out with their own hides in one piece, and they're all past masters at playing that game.
- SilasX 10y agoTinfoil much? When was the last time someone avoided an indictment where there was overwhelming evidence, simply because they knew the right people?
- douche 10y agoLast week?
- SEJeff 10y agocough OJ
- hyperbovine 10y agoHillary last week? Is this a serious question?
- SilasX 10y agoNot a serious question, but yeah, sometimes the sarcasm is too subtle. Poe's Law and all...
- w1ntermute 10y ago> Ms. Holmes maintains a heavy security detail. Men with earpieces escort her wherever she goes outside the Palo Alto headquarters. Their code name for her is “Eagle 1,” current and former employees say. Mr. Balwani, until he retired, was “Eagle 2,” they say. You cannot make this shit up. How full of herself can she possibly get? The Adam McKay movie is going to be particularly fantastic if there are more examples like this.
- brandon272 10y agoHow common is security detail for CEOs of billion dollar corporations to begin with? It seems to be fairly random. Steve Jobs drove himself to work. According to Fortune, in 2013 HP spent $1700 on security for Meg Whitman and Amazon spent $1.6M on Jeff Bezos [1]. It's really all over the map. And presumably the costs go up if the company is exposed in scandal and investors are unhappy with the CEO or they begin to receive threats. [1] http://fortune.com/2015/01/07/ceo-security-jeff-bezos/ http://fortune.com/2015/01/07/ceo-security-jeff-bezos/
- sargun 10y agoZuckerberg maintains a pretty heavy security detail. So does Sandberg from my understanding.
- personjerry 10y agoSource?
- conistonwater 10y ago> For a while it has been clear she is more interested in self aggrandizement than ensuring her technology actually works. Which one of those things is better for her career, do you think?
- dominotw 10y agoRemains to be seen.
- daveguy 10y agoIf she could have ensured her technology worked it would certainly be ensuring her technology works. If she was capable of getting suite of blood tests from a drop of blood Theranos really would be worth that venture capital valuation. When your tech doesn't work you can't ensure that it works so self-aggrandizement is your option until the house of cards crumbles.
- us0r 10y agoIn addition to the Academy Award-winning director already following her around "In addition to making frequent media and conference appearances, she hired Academy Award-winning director Errol Morris to film videos of herself and others for Theranos’s website."
- jacquesm 10y agoWonder what she plans to pay him with. Theranos stock?
- MaxfordAndSons 10y ago(Spoiler alert regarding the HBO documentary series 'The Jinx') It's interesting that she contacted a producer of 'The Jinx', given that the series was ultimately a vehicle for Robert Durst, a wealthy individual long suspected of multiple murders, to publicly confess to his crimes. I wonder if she's perhaps planning a similar confessional documentary, in the hopes of salvaging some of her reputation.