ybiomepoopthrow

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   by ybiomepoopthrow 6y ago

   Zac and Jessica would swiftly fire anybody who didn’t validate them. Any counsel they’d hire would have to tell them what they want to hear. They were also comfortable lying, so there’s that too
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   by ybiomepoopthrow 6y ago

   I doubt it was a fabrication. It was likely a software error You could have been linked to the same underlying database file, that could be the ‘default’ output from the bioinformatics pipeline when the quality was low, or some other mix
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   by ybiomepoopthrow 6y ago

   That’s a hard question. Zac and Jessica fired people often and required things be done their way, which a was usually wrong or substandard. The result was that your poop was actually sequenced, but the results weren’t trustable
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   by ybiomepoopthrow 6y ago

   The founders and employees had a lot of meetings with A16Z during the life of the company. They were active on YC communication channels as well
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   by ybiomepoopthrow 6y ago

   Also, they were very explicit that everything was legal, and was similar to, and better than what other testing companies were doing.
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   by ybiomepoopthrow 6y ago

   Was early there, can tell you at the time the founders were well connected and extremely vengeful