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How do people think it will play out both tech-culturally and politically if she gets convicted / acquitted? If convicted, justice would be had but would it se

• amluto 8y ago
  > If convicted, justice would be had but would it send a negative message to entrepreneurs I would consider a message that entrepreneurs are not above the law to be a positive message.
  • Verdex 8y ago
    Hear hear. This is exactly the type of message that I want to be sent to entrepreneurs. If you ruin people's lives and externalize your failures in order to perpetuate fraud, then you'll go to jail. Additionally, someplace out there is somebody with an idea that could allow the single blood drop idea to actually work. That idea is going to get buried because after Theranos, nobody is going to want to risk getting involved with Theranos 2.0. A conviction is the best possible thing for entrepreneurs who actually help society and is only a negative thing to entrepreneurs who want to get rich by stealing from others.
• dragonwriter 8y ago
  > If convicted, justice would be had but would it send a negative message to entrepreneurs? It might send a cautionary message, but cautionary messages aren't inherently negative.