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Was Elizabeth Holmes (theranos) "smart" or great at manipulating situations to suit her? One can argue that you must be smart to accomplish this level of fraud

Was Elizabeth Holmes (theranos) "smart" or great at manipulating situations to suit her? One can argue that you must be smart to accomplish this level of fraud.. in Elizabeth's case she was defrauding people who should have known better. Many "rich and famous" are really just good at marketing, and one has to wonder how much of his "antics" are to keep himself in the news?

smt88 4y ago
> Was Elizabeth Holmes (theranos) "smart" or great at manipulating situations to suit her? I genuinely don't know. I listened to that podcast about her, and my conclusion was mostly that she was obsessive, manipulative, controlling, and unscrupulous. I wasn't able to figure out if she were actually intelligent or not. I'd ask the same thing about Meredith Perry at uBeam[1], who presided over a similarly fanciful (probably fraudulent) company. Can you be said to be "intelligent" if scientists are telling you that the laws of nature prevent your product from ever working, but you throw money at it anyway? Can you be said to be intelligent if you hire some of the world's most talented people and then abuse them until they leave? 1. https://techcrunch.com/2018/09/20/ubeam/ https://techcrunch.com/2018/09/20/ubeam/
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