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one of the most legendary posts on Hacker News, for sure. this is the only thing that person posted, and it was 100% spot on YEARS before the fall. this person

by nunez 4y ago

one of the most legendary posts on Hacker News, for sure. this is the only thing that person posted, and it was 100% spot on YEARS before the fall. this person HAD to be an insider, no question.

jojobas 4y ago
Or read their patents.
- ergocoder 4y ago
  I owned 5 software patents. They are all hot airs. Reading patent wouldn't help much. You can go read any software patents and would be: wtf is this about?
  - jojobas 4y ago
    Yes, but how many software shops get billions in funding specifically over sham inventions they've patented? Theranos patented a skin patch that automatically analyses blood and dispenses the best drug from the patch's inventory.
    - ergocoder 4y ago
      My point is that reading patents wouldn't help much. Most patents are written in an egregious way, even patents from a legit tech company.
irjustin 4y ago
I tried to search. Sadly can't find it at the moment. But, there was/is a reddit thread that, without naming the company, originally asked is it normal for a company be "pumping numbers" in the medical field. It was an an engineer/scientist who asked it years before anything public. A number of commenters guessed it was Theranos, eventually the poster came back to confirm the suspicions while expounding on the whole experience.
- carabiner 4y ago
  This might be it: https://www.reddit.com/r/jobs/comments/rtgcl/i_have_a_highpaying_job_in_an_organization_based/ https://www.reddit.com/r/jobs/comments/rtgcl/i_have_a_highpa...
  - irjustin 4y ago
    Ah yes! That's the one! Thanks!
  - nunez 4y ago
    this is the reddit that I miss, and this is the ONE example where it kind of sucks that we can comment on old posts. legendary thread; thank you for finding it.
astura 4y ago
>this person HAD to be an insider, no question Nah, that's doubtful. I've seen plenty of posts on HN and elsewhere that held the same sentiment. MANY people said that what they were trying to do was very difficult and they did not do anything to prove they had any technical advances to do it. The company was shady and overly secretive in a really strange way. The board was inappropriate for a biotech company. Everyone with a background in biology or microfluidics said these things. It wasn't hard to find. That's why I was so surprised when they partnered with Walgreens. I thought at the time that Walgreens must know something that the public didn't.

by nunez 4y ago

one of the most legendary posts on Hacker News, for sure. this is the only thing that person posted, and it was 100% spot on YEARS before the fall. this person HAD to be an insider, no question.

jojobas 4y ago

Or read their patents.

ergocoder 4y ago
I owned 5 software patents. They are all hot airs. Reading patent wouldn't help much. You can go read any software patents and would be: wtf is this about?
- jojobas 4y ago
  Yes, but how many software shops get billions in funding specifically over sham inventions they've patented? Theranos patented a skin patch that automatically analyses blood and dispenses the best drug from the patch's inventory.
  - ergocoder 4y ago
    My point is that reading patents wouldn't help much. Most patents are written in an egregious way, even patents from a legit tech company.

irjustin 4y ago

I tried to search. Sadly can't find it at the moment. But, there was/is a reddit thread that, without naming the company, originally asked is it normal for a company be "pumping numbers" in the medical field. It was an an engineer/scientist who asked it years before anything public. A number of commenters guessed it was Theranos, eventually the poster came back to confirm the suspicions while expounding on the whole experience.

carabiner 4y ago
This might be it: https://www.reddit.com/r/jobs/comments/rtgcl/i_have_a_highpaying_job_in_an_organization_based/ https://www.reddit.com/r/jobs/comments/rtgcl/i_have_a_highpa...
- irjustin 4y ago
  Ah yes! That's the one! Thanks!
- nunez 4y ago
  this is the reddit that I miss, and this is the ONE example where it kind of sucks that we can comment on old posts. legendary thread; thank you for finding it.

astura 4y ago

>this person HAD to be an insider, no question Nah, that's doubtful. I've seen plenty of posts on HN and elsewhere that held the same sentiment. MANY people said that what they were trying to do was very difficult and they did not do anything to prove they had any technical advances to do it. The company was shady and overly secretive in a really strange way. The board was inappropriate for a biotech company. Everyone with a background in biology or microfluidics said these things. It wasn't hard to find. That's why I was so surprised when they partnered with Walgreens. I thought at the time that Walgreens must know something that the public didn't.