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I'll have to watch a doc or something but two quick questions if anyone knows: Was this even in the realm of possibility? What lead her to start this company?

• rawgabbit 4y ago
  Complete scam. Her Stanford professor gave several interviews where the prof said she told Holmes her technology is not scientifically possible. All the execs at Theranos knew it didn’t work. That was why they secretly outsourced work to traditional laboratories. Then there was the whistle blower Tyler Schultz. He got roughed up by Theranos lawyers at his own grandfathers house. His grandfather was George Schultz former US Sec of State and Theranos board member. The lawyers wanted him to admit he gave away “trade secrets”. The trade secret is Holmes and everyone at Theranos belong in prison. https://www.fraud-magazine.com/cover-article.aspx?id=4295006794 https://www.fraud-magazine.com/cover-article.aspx?id=4295006...
  • wilsonnb3 4y ago
    I still can't get over the fact that so many rich people invested in this thing and joined the board despite anyone with the scientific knowledge to understand what Theranos said they were doing knew it was a scam. How to you invest millions in a medical/science company and not ask some impartial third parties if they think it is legit?
    • rawgabbit 4y ago
      Holmes also scammed Harvard Medical School. HMS invited her to join their Board of Fellows despite Phyllis Gardner's loud protests, the very same Stanford professor who met Holmes years earlier. Phyllis Gardner was on the same Board of Fellows and told everyone else that Holmes was a fraud. Harvard ignored Phyllis Gardner as all they could see was $$$. https://www.thecrimson.com/article/2022/11/3/elizabeth-holmes-hms-fellows/ https://www.thecrimson.com/article/2022/11/3/elizabeth-holme...
• yesenadam 4y ago
  Read the book Bad Blood and watch the series The Dropout for a fairly complete picture of the whole saga. The Dropout https://www.imdb.com/title/tt10166622/ https://www.imdb.com/title/tt10166622/ After that, 10 mins of Alex Gibney's doco The Inventor will likely be enough, just to see and hear the creepy reality. > Was this even in the realm of possibility? Apparently not even in the realm of possibility. It seems she had a vision of herself as a genius who changed the world, and lived in that bubble. Still does, it seems. Even after reading Bad Blood, the series really shows you how it looked, how such a thing was even possible, and went on for so many years. It's such a crazy story. I do feel sorry for Sonny though.