The Wall Street Journal was running investigative pieces seriously questioning Theranos' capabilities in 2015. Concerns and questions had been bubbling for a wh

The Wall Street Journal was running investigative pieces seriously questioning Theranos' capabilities in 2015. Concerns and questions had been bubbling for a while before that. Theranos' response included an all-company meeting where they chanted "Fuck you, Carreyrou"[1] (John Carreyrou, the WSJ reporter who wrote the critical articles), and developeing a video game for employees that involved shooting him[2]. Notice that second article is only a couple months old and reports that some people there still believe the problem was not Theranos' lack of ability to do what it claimed, but that the media reported Theranos couldn't do what it claimed. This playbook of "the problem isn't that our company is in trouble, it's that the media reported truthfully on our trouble" is still being used today by other darlings of Silicon Valley and HN. [1] https://www.vanityfair.com/news/2016/09/elizabeth-holmes-theranos-exclusive https://www.vanityfair.com/news/2016/09/elizabeth-holmes-the... [2] http://www.businessinsider.com/theranos-employees-made-space-invaders-game-where-you-shoot-journalist-that-exposed-startup-problems-2018-4 http://www.businessinsider.com/theranos-employees-made-space...