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> Except when it comes to lives and health of other people. Make no compromises there, no sacrifices. I have not read the book, but based on the author’s inter
by consumer451 8y ago
> Except when it comes to lives and health of other people. Make no compromises there, no sacrifices.
I have not read the book, but based on the author’s interviews I have to agree with the idea that fake it ‘till you make it should never be applied to the medical space.
When Theranos went live in Walgreens they crossed a line where limitless ambition should never be an excuse for vaporware. If accountability is at all an American standard, then Holmes should be prevented from ever being an executive in the health space. People’s lives were endangered. There is no excuse. Blood tests are not some b2b SaaS customer dev experiment.
- InitialLastName 8y ago> If accountability is at all an American standard That's your problem right there. I see no evidence (from the perspectives of politics, business, religion or any other angle I can think of) that Americans actually care even a tiny bit about accountability. They're perfectly happy to say they do, but when push comes to shove its a thin sheen over tribalism ("My opponents are obviously not being held to account").
- 76 8y ago"Fake it till you make it" was about confidence not building a business.
- corvallis 8y agoIt was. Then at some point it became about building a business. Remember the Lily drone?