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I get the sense from reading the book that a lot of the fraud Holmes perpetrated was with the intent of buying time and pushing forward with a finalized product
by glenstein 8y ago
I get the sense from reading the book that a lot of the fraud Holmes perpetrated was with the intent of buying time and pushing forward with a finalized product. It's still fraud, of course, but fraud with a vision I guess you could say.
- 75dvtwin 8y ago'buying time' ... while raising capital from investors, for a fraudulent technology. Seems like a sort of ponzi scheme where the 'financial instrument' is a 'technology vision'. Would not be surprised if Holmes pay anything to the earlier investors, with the money of the new ones... Her life's work, in her words, was 'redefining the paradigm of diagnosis' ( https://youtu.be/5tEeSHy1x98?t=1m19s https://youtu.be/5tEeSHy1x98?t=1m19s ) Very 'Silicon Valey' lingo in her speech: 'Reinventing / Redefining / Reimagining XYZ'. With a portfolio of groundbreaking patents...