>These kinds of responses infuriate me. I also get so frustrated by so much of the media taking the line of "This was just Silicon Valley's 'Fake it til you mak

>These kinds of responses infuriate me. I also get so frustrated by so much of the media taking the line of "This was just Silicon Valley's 'Fake it til you make it' culture taken to the extreme." Yeah, me too. In this case, Theranos was saying they were going to demo their revolutionary lab testing process. They would take the blood sample from the participants being demoed to, put them in a cartridge that then went into the machine, and the machine would light up and start making noises. They would lead the people out of the room and other employees would secretly grab the blood from the machine and process it with a very labor intensive manual process (normally taking a couple of hours). When the participants were given their results, the implication was that Theranos' revolutionary machine did all the work.