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Who are the enablers in your view? I know there were many noteworthy investors and names attached to Theranos as a strategy to give it credibility and momentum.
by throwawaysea 5y ago
Who are the enablers in your view? I know there were many noteworthy investors and names attached to Theranos as a strategy to give it credibility and momentum. But in the end wasn’t it enabled by just us, the everyday people? Everyone ate up the Fortune cover story and every outlet from news media to Facebook to LinkedIn leveraged Elizabeth Holmes as a beacon for Diversity, Inclusion, and Equity. The author of that cover story also may have been a victim, or so he claimed in a follow up article (https://fortune.com/2015/12/17/how-theranos-misled-me-elizabeth-holmes/ https://fortune.com/2015/12/17/how-theranos-misled-me-elizab...). I see Holmes and other key associates as those primarily at fault in this saga, but hold the public secondarily responsible for eating it all up so uncritically.