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Interesting figure that guy. Here's this: >Boies also was on the Theranos board of directors,[2][74] raising questions about conflicts of interest.[75] Boies a

Interesting figure that guy. Here's this: >Boies also was on the Theranos board of directors,[2][74] raising questions about conflicts of interest.[75] Boies agreed to be paid for his firm's work in Theranos stock, which he expected to grow dramatically in value.[75][3] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/David_Boies https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/David_Boies That was one of the decisions of all time.

A_D_E_P_T 1y ago
He was also the primary villain of John Carreyrou's account of Theranos' rise and fall -- Bad Blood -- as his firm attempted to bully and hound whistleblowers, and intimidate their families with baseless legal threats. Not a very nice or ethical guy.
- anshumankmr 1y ago
  >also the primary villain Hopefully second to Holmes,eh?
  - A_D_E_P_T 1y ago
    Holmes seemed shady, really careless, and criminally flippant re: shipping medical technologies that never worked. But Boies was an out-and-out scoundrel, a real old-fashioned criminal enforcer type. I had (and still have, to some extent,) mixed feelings about Holmes. She's like an avatar of SV's "fake it 'til you make it" aspect, taken way too far, to an uncomfortable extreme. Boies, though? He represents the absolute perversion of the legal profession and the Common Law. In him you see how it is used by the powerful to bludgeon and coerce the weak. The Law as naked and unambiguous Lawful Evil. He's the worse villain of the two. And, aptly, this Mephistopheles is the one still walking free.
- favorited 1y ago
  He was a secondary villain in Ronan Farrow's Catch and Kill book, as Harvey Weinstein's attorney. He employed similar tactics to protect Weinstein as he did for Theranos. He was fired by the New York Times after all this came out, because he hired private investigators to go after the NYT reporters investigating Weinstein (Jodi Kantor & Megan Twohey at the NYT broke the story just before Farrow's reporting was published), while also representing the Times.

A_D_E_P_T 1y ago

He was also the primary villain of John Carreyrou's account of Theranos' rise and fall -- Bad Blood -- as his firm attempted to bully and hound whistleblowers, and intimidate their families with baseless legal threats. Not a very nice or ethical guy.

anshumankmr 1y ago
>also the primary villain Hopefully second to Holmes,eh?
- A_D_E_P_T 1y ago
  Holmes seemed shady, really careless, and criminally flippant re: shipping medical technologies that never worked. But Boies was an out-and-out scoundrel, a real old-fashioned criminal enforcer type. I had (and still have, to some extent,) mixed feelings about Holmes. She's like an avatar of SV's "fake it 'til you make it" aspect, taken way too far, to an uncomfortable extreme. Boies, though? He represents the absolute perversion of the legal profession and the Common Law. In him you see how it is used by the powerful to bludgeon and coerce the weak. The Law as naked and unambiguous Lawful Evil. He's the worse villain of the two. And, aptly, this Mephistopheles is the one still walking free.
favorited 1y ago
He was a secondary villain in Ronan Farrow's Catch and Kill book, as Harvey Weinstein's attorney. He employed similar tactics to protect Weinstein as he did for Theranos. He was fired by the New York Times after all this came out, because he hired private investigators to go after the NYT reporters investigating Weinstein (Jodi Kantor & Megan Twohey at the NYT broke the story just before Farrow's reporting was published), while also representing the Times.