It's hard to say without at least having knowledge of the industry as it's naive to expect that it's the same job market as with the programmers. While it all

It's hard to say without at least having knowledge of the industry as it's naive to expect that it's the same job market as with the programmers. While it all looks ridiculous from the outside (and media makes it easy to see Theranos as a bunch of idiots), maybe some smart people inside think that they still can pull it off? That maybe the odds of success are large enough, even still low in absolute terms, to take the risk to hit the jackpot? Or maybe simply it's not that easy to find a new job in such a niche area.