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The modal random "qualified investor" is probably a dentist, not Kissinger.

• HWR_14 5y ago
  And your point is you think Dentists (or Kissinger) should be presumed to be good at choosing a CEO?
  • perl4ever 5y ago
    I don't know why the person that started this subthread thought the CEO was chosen by the investors. Holmes founded the company beforehand, then people gave her money. As far as I know. So it seems a bit off to frame it as though someone else founded the company and hired her.
    • myWindoonn 5y ago
      A company without investors is a bootstrapped small business. Investors without a company are venture capitalists. Without investors, a company never becomes a startup, never has front-page articles in newspapers and magazines, never gets invited onto cable news for interviews, never hires expensive talent, never buys sports cars for its executives, never spends millions of dollars on advertising, etc. Without investors, Holmes never would have mattered. The investments are what enabled her to commit the fraud.
      • perl4ever 5y ago
        I don't see anything obviously incorrect about all that, but it's irrelevant to the fact (if I'm not mistaken) that the investors didn't get a business and hire a CEO to run it, they found a business with a CEO.