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> But this kid stood up to his own family, and lawyers hired by his family If I'm reading the article correctly, the lawyers who harassed him were hired by the

• danso 10y ago
  Ah yes, you're correct. The lawyers were at his grandfather's home, but not directly hired by him: > His grandfather asked if he would sign a one-page confidentiality agreement to give Theranos peace of mind. According to Tyler Shultz, when he said yes, his grandfather revealed that two lawyers were waiting upstairs with the agreement...Tyler Shultz says his grandfather protested to the lawyers that this wasn’t what he and Ms. Holmes had agreed to earlier, but that Mr. Brille kept pressing the younger Mr. Shultz to admit he had spoken to the Journal. Still, the grandfather was working in concert with Ms. Holmes, and I imagine at the time, it would've been difficult for Tyler to give his grandfather the benefit of the doubt, assuming that Tyler was not expecting lawyers to jump out at his grandfather's command. I actually missed the paragraph where it's mentioned that his parents "pleaded with him to agree to whatever Theranos wanted" and told him that they might sell their house to deal with the legal costs. Add that to the checklist of things I'm not sure I could do if I were in his shoes. (That his parents only responded to the WSJ reporter via a prepared statement suggests that there's still tension.)