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Because they took money that was intended to improve it? Especially for busy people? These two attempting the half Ironman were likely busy, ambitious people, b
by benatkin 3y ago
Because they took money that was intended to improve it? Especially for busy people? These two attempting the half Ironman were likely busy, ambitious people, because people who travel to another country for an endurance event tend to be. https://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/article-12426285/Two-men-die-Irish-Ironman-event-Youghal-Cork.html https://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/article-12426285/Two-men-di...
> Theranos may have been the worst-case scenario for the testing industry, but the big-picture idea — that testing should be faster and more convenient — is still true, Klapperich says. “Now, people are trying to sort out the question of what was real about what Theranos was saying. Because we still need this stuff.”
https://www.theverge.com/22834348/theranos-blood-testing-innovation-drop-holmes https://www.theverge.com/22834348/theranos-blood-testing-inn...
- jliptzin 3y agoI still don’t understand Theranos’s original value prop. Once you are already going in to have blood taken, what difference does it make whether it’s a small amount or a full test tube?
- duskwuff 3y agoIt was perhaps less about the actual value proposition and more about a promise that they'd developed some kind of revolutionary new medical testing processes (and not, you know, just running existing diagnostic tests with an inappropriately small sample).