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> There's the easy story: "Young, ambitious wunderkind founder falls from grace." And the hard story: "Here's what might be relevant for future founders." There
by KaiserPro 5y ago
> There's the easy story: "Young, ambitious wunderkind founder falls from grace." And the hard story: "Here's what might be relevant for future founders." There's the easy story: "Young, ambitious wunderkind founder falls from grace." And the hard story: "Here's what might be relevant for future founders."
I don't think thats quite correct.
Holmes committed fraud, the part that seemed to sink her was attaching other company's names to literature.
However most of us would have assumed the bit that _should_ have nailed her and a lot of the executive committee is the industrial fraud of individual, vulnerable patients.
THeranos was only able to commit this fraud because of the breathless, non critical PR pumped out by tech "journalism"