Theranos founder Elizabeth Holmes found guilty
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Excellent, finally this scammer can come to justice. Question is will she get a proper sentence?
I don't know how so many investors were fooled though, to anyone in the biomedical sector her claims were far too good to be true in the first place.
EDIT - Background video for context.
I don't know how so many investors were fooled though, to anyone in the biomedical sector her claims were far too good to be true in the first place.
EDIT - Background video for context.
There’s a great YouTube video by Psychologists that work for the security agency etc - they basically ask two questions “is she lying?” (Yes) “is she a psychopath?” (high probability) based on analysis of body language during an interview.
In the US - it’s who is paying the research teams, I suspect the investors are paying for additional research. The public purse probably was defeated by the defence budget.
Given the target was her - she could point at the rest of the company for misleading clients or failure to follow processes (although you could point she is accountable for strategy/tactics allowed), she is directly accountable for the relationship with investors as CEO.
In the US - it’s who is paying the research teams, I suspect the investors are paying for additional research. The public purse probably was defeated by the defence budget.
Given the target was her - she could point at the rest of the company for misleading clients or failure to follow processes (although you could point she is accountable for strategy/tactics allowed), she is directly accountable for the relationship with investors as CEO.
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She should have been locked up long ago. Deserves decades in prison for what she did.
Disgusting that she was not guilty for defrauding patients.
Disgusting that she was not guilty for defrauding patients.
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Shes hot, as with 90% of women shes also a psychopath tho 
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Incredible really isn't it? It's clear she had a vision bigger than her ability, but the fact she changed her voice and was so damn brazen with pushing this **** to people when it had literally no chance of working, is psychopathic.
My thoughts exactly.
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Yes.
I thought the exact same when the news first surfaced. Surely for such a bold claim as being able to detect diseases from a few droplets of blood she would have had to have demonstrated the capability of the technology. It's almost as the saying goes - a fool and their money is easily parted.
Shes hot, as with 90% of women shes also a psychopath tho
Shes hot, as with 90% of women shes also a psychopath tho
Made me laugh far too much.
Where is that matrix when you need it
Hahahaha what?! First I've heard of her and this con but my god how dumb/foolish were these investors?! Hahaha they deserve what they got. The patients, however, definitely did not.
How unregulated is health care in the US that something like this could make its way to their public?
How unregulated is health care in the US that something like this could make its way to their public?
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Healthcare in the US is driven by money, rather than to do good, if you haven't looked into it, check out their latest opioid cases against the pharmaceutical industry.
When she actually enters prison I'll celebrate. I expect she'll serve a handful at best but a vile person that represents the very worst of US corporate interests vs giving a single **** about humans. God it must have been awful working in that company.
She had this creepy obsession with Steve Jobs, always wearing black turle necks and demanding stuff that wasnt possible, firing/pushing people that said it couldn't be done. The huge difference being Appe was designing software and a product "that just works" in the eyes of a consumer vs actual well studied blood science within the rules of thermodynamics.
She had this creepy obsession with Steve Jobs, always wearing black turle necks and demanding stuff that wasnt possible, firing/pushing people that said it couldn't be done. The huge difference being Appe was designing software and a product "that just works" in the eyes of a consumer vs actual well studied blood science within the rules of thermodynamics.
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There is a great book on Amazon about it.
It's absolutely amazing that she could become a billionaire whilst leading a company that never actually had a working product.
These are the people we're all told to emulate - to look up to. The wealth creators and entrepreneurs. The people who "made something of themselves".
And she is one of the most successful, becoming the "youngest female self-made billionaire". A real example of what is possible.
Just makes me laugh, is all. All the rest of us nobodies doing a useful job day in day out, and will never be celebrated like this woman was.
These are the people we're all told to emulate - to look up to. The wealth creators and entrepreneurs. The people who "made something of themselves".
And she is one of the most successful, becoming the "youngest female self-made billionaire". A real example of what is possible.
Just makes me laugh, is all. All the rest of us nobodies doing a useful job day in day out, and will never be celebrated like this woman was.