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Let’s get some healthcare startups funded and we can start taking about real money!

• nolok 7y ago
  They tried already, it was called Theranos and it confirmed that “fake it till you make it” really shouldn’t be applied to healthcare
  • maxerickson 7y ago
    Sort of. Theranos did a shitty job being a normal lab and lied about it, a startup that wanted to fake it until they made it could first setup an excellent normal lab, and then with customer consent, run their new lab processes in parallel with the excellent normal lab tests. I suppose I'm stretching the definition of faking it a little far there, but I think it sort of follows the ethos.
    • stjohnswarts 7y ago
      They also had faulty tech and faulty promises and turned to regular labs to do the work they couldn't to try and cover up some of it.
      • maxerickson 7y ago
        I thought "Theranos did a shitty job being a normal lab and lied about it," addressed that.
        • nolok 7y ago
          There’s doing a shitty job, and then there is killing people with negligence