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Prompted by this comment I looked up Theranos' investors. Turns out Rupert Murdoch was in Series A. What irony! https://www.crunchbase.com/organization/therano
by bilkoo 8y ago
Prompted by this comment I looked up Theranos' investors. Turns out Rupert Murdoch was in Series A. What irony!
https://www.crunchbase.com/organization/theranos/investors/investors_list#section-investors https://www.crunchbase.com/organization/theranos/investors/i...
- hangonhn 8y agoBut it does speak well of journalistic independence at the WSJ.
- gravis7777 8y agoWhy is that ironic?
- danso 8y agoRupert Murdoch owns the WSJ, which ran the major investigation that caused Theranos to first unravel: https://www.theguardian.com/media/2016/nov/29/rupert-murdoch-theranos-investment-wall-street-journal https://www.theguardian.com/media/2016/nov/29/rupert-murdoch... Nearly as ironic: the first public big splash article about Theranos was a puff piece in the WSJ by a Pulitzer Prize winner (the investigative story was from a 2-time Pulitzer winner, John Carreyrou) http://archive.is/8dfJ7 http://archive.is/8dfJ7
- AlexCoventry 8y agoThis is interesting. Are there regulations mandating public access to this information?
- rosege 8y agoPoor Rupert, doesnt have much luck with tech. He also bought MySpace at its peak and I think lost $700mil pretty quickly.
- ionised 8y agoIf anyone deserves to lose fortunes, it is him.