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You're right: she absolutely believed that her technology already worked, or only needed some product development and marketing. She was enraptured in her own
by dekhn 3y ago
You're right: she absolutely believed that her technology already worked, or only needed some product development and marketing. She was enraptured in her own reality distortion field.
- lern_too_spel 3y agoThere is no way she believed the technology worked. Her employees told her it didn't work. They were still validating the devices by comparing results with working machines at the time the machines were handling customer samples. At best, she might have believed that the technology could work in the future after some technological breakthrough.
- JohnFen 3y agoIt doesn't really matter much if she believed the technology worked or not (if she did, she was delusional for the very reasons you cite). What mattered is that she told people things that she knew weren't true in order to extract investment money from them.
- HeyLaughingBoy 3y agoThen she was beyond delusional. I brought up Theranos technology at the medical device company I was working at the time. The response I got was "well it doesn't seem feasible, but I guess we'll pay attention to them in case they see something we don't." The industry already knew it wasn't going to work.