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Not saying you're right it wrong, bit Theranos seems like a counter example to what you are arguing.
by enkid 5y ago
Not saying you're right it wrong, bit Theranos seems like a counter example to what you are arguing.
- jszymborski 5y agoI suppose what I meant here was that Theranos was so successful at misrepresenting facts to industry and the consumer that they were able to reach meteoric heights based on absolutely nothing at all. It's in that way that I mean that Theranos exemplified dishonesty in SV tech. Of course, unlike Uber/Google/Crunchy, Theranos was breaking the law in the service of a product that not only didn't existed, but couldn't. That meant the company had to eventually implode, but its entire existence was fueled by the same sort of dishonesty SV startups have (fairly or no) gained a reputation for.