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OK, i get that the CEO was an inexperienced kid (at best), or a deluded megalomaniac-egomaniac person who couldn't even finish college , yet thought that by fol
by return0 10y ago
OK, i get that the CEO was an inexperienced kid (at best), or a deluded megalomaniac-egomaniac person who couldn't even finish college , yet thought that by following the 10000 hour rule and wearing turtlenecks will turn her to the next Napoleon bonaparte (at worst).
What about the other employees/investors/board members? Are they hiding, or prefer to kill the sacrificial lamb instead?
- rcarrigan87 10y agoI'm really curious about this as well. I find it hard to believe all the employees would be willing to help them cover anything up at this point. Maybe the extreme, cult-like nature of Theranos is going to be the next story to drop. Or maybe their tech will actually work. Who knows.
- SilasX 10y agoYeah, I wonder where someone would ever get the idea... - that an entire industry has been doing it wrong - that it can be fixed by a low-bureaucracy, Angel-funded startup - that once you have enough success you can just rewrite the laws that were slowing you down - that no one knows what they're doing anyway, major projects are 100% guesswork, and you should just "fake it till you make it" - that any skill is just a matter of 10,000 hours of practice - that you can outsmart an industry before even passing or placing out of sophomore level classes - that any self-doubt must be Impostor Syndrome, and so it's not worth your time to even check if that doubt has a factual basis Well, I mean, of course, besides the HN comment section.