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[–] cheese_greater@lemmy.world 16 points 5 hours ago* (last edited 5 hours ago) (3 children)

Cant wait to see this. She's terrifying and Fielder is imho the perfect foil to interview her.

Its weird cuz she just ripped off a bunch of rich people, I dont really have any reason to hate her really but she's sort of emblematic of what is problematic of startup and tech culture and in a sense identify culture where being the first ___ founder/CEO or one of few ____ founders/CEOs/whatever is part of the pitch.

In a better world it would never have entered the equation much less overshadowed the actual lack of viable product/IP. How did no blood scientist/dr/expert not easily point out their premise was fatally flawed in a way that doomed the whole exercise, both internally and publicly?

There were some after the fact and it was exposed who were casually like "ya, the blood available from a pinprick to the finger doesnt suffice for the grand vision Theranos was sold as and predicated upon

[–] scytale@piefed.zip 8 points 3 hours ago (1 children)

she just ripped off a bunch of rich people

Her company was sinking its teeth into the medical field though. That could’ve killed people if they weren’t found out soon enough.

[–] Zensate@lemmy.world 1 points 2 hours ago

I mean they're killing enough people on their own

[–] marcos@lemmy.world 9 points 4 hours ago (1 children)

How did no blood scientist/dr/expert not easily point out their premise was fatally flawed?

They did. Every expert out there pointed out it's impossible.

[–] scytale@piefed.zip 6 points 3 hours ago

I remember one former employee posted on reddit without naming the company, saying everything they were claiming was bs. A little later the scandal blew up and it was confirmed the guy worked for Theranos.

[–] GregorGizeh@lemmy.zip 11 points 5 hours ago

The most depressing thing about this entire ordeal is that the woman stole lots of money, got busted because that money belonged to rich people, and is now after having been convicted and literally been to prison as far as i know, able to cash in on that further. Lets make a movie about that wonderful successful scammer.