Theranos - Silicon Valley’s Greatest Disaster

[@HeliRy]

Mark Zuckerberg’s dead eyes, Steve Jobs’ black turtle necks, voice of Megatron. Seems legit.

[@royh2618]

Nobody questioned her fake-ass voice? Thats the first clue all is not well. Then, the crazy eyes.

[@거북깃발]

Voice of Megatron~ LOL

[@TruthisPowerTYFather]

Lol im 200

[@apimpnamedslickback7115]

Mark doesn't have dead eyes, he legitimately doesn't look human. There is a difference.

[@apimpnamedslickback7115]

All of you saying people have "dead eyes" have never met a dead eyed killer yet and it shows.

[@PippiOnePointOh]

I’m a medical laboratory professional, and I can tell you that not everyone was taken in by Elizabeth Holmes. The medical laboratory community was crying foul from the very beginning.

[@lordjim3109]

It wasn`t really about lab testing after all, was it? It was all about the multi-figure profits that all these big fish envisioned flowing into their bank accounts.

[@tonyclifton2230]

How does someone get away with this if there is this thought in the community they come from. Is there no regulatory system that would be able to pick out such a con. It seems crazy with something that could cause such a disaster if it was supplied to the general public.

[@isitoveryet9525]

@@tonyclifton2230 She didn’t get away with it lol

[@helenarichard]

I always think of this when people cry that they're listening to the covid experts. Oh, which experts? Are they all from Theranos? Who?

[@helenarichard]

@@tonyclifton2230 I think her main excuse was that she was still experimenting. Which is of course bollocks because she tried to use the public as an involuntary lab rat. I heard her net worth is now zero though, but she married rich and is from a rich family herself. She went back to square one but is smiling like an idiot unapologetically, what she never did in all her footage. Sociopath

[@dirt9081]

instead of going into medicine, this lady should've been a politician. she would have killed it.

[@tomlxyz]

Literally

[@dubb3292]

@@tomlxyz lmao

[@paulschlacter2685]

Thank god she didn’t

[@lukeGGlee]

She would have killed a lot of people and in politics and the military, that can make billions of dollars if you find a profitable way to do it

[@Johnslist]

More likely this fraud was her stepping stone. Aftr 'leaning in' and bamboozling everyone, she'd have gotten backing from Sandberg, Zuckerberg, the DNC and would have gone straight to Presidential run (bypassing State or Congress 'internships'...it's the new normal. No one knows history anyway, just sprint to the top.

[@rorygiambalvo2955]

Shoutout to Erika Cheung, one of the main whistleblowers who isnt mentioned here. She didnt have the resources and safety net Tyler Shultz had, and spoke out anyway.

[@sw-gs]

THey both spoke out, because they were complicent if fraud too. Giving out proof and statements lead them to become immunity witness and under protection of FBI.

[@paddy1144]

@@sw-gs That's not true at all, you are not held liable for your company's lies. Whistleblowing isn't anything to do with legal protection you cockwomble

[@LyRaLex]

First they think you're crazy... and then they find out you are actually crazy.

[@mousumikarchowdhury9591]

😂😂😂

[@msalah9117]

😂😂😂😂😁😁

[@tammysanders4812]

lmao

[@stonefree7973]

@@adruvitpandit5816 Are you trying to say that all women are like Holmes? 🤦🏾‍♂️

[@adruvitpandit5816]

​@@stonefree7973 Meritocracy over gender is what I am saying. VC firms are funding more tech companies started by women or at least with one women co-founder, in fact guys have figured this out and many guys are at least hiring one female co founder so that the picture looks good and they can get Investment easily, even if their tech doesn't work. The current plan of most Tech firms to promote gender balance is to promote women and hire them to fill a quota of sorts, even when they suck at those interviews. There are firms like Thoughtworks, Google, Apple which are saying come to tech even if you have never worked in tech. What the hell is going on? Dont promote/hire them just because they are women, if they do great at Interviews or if their tech works by all means hire them, fund their companies not just because they are women.

[@opedromagico]

Her eyes are from the same tech company that made Zuckenberg's eyes

[@O.K.Pemby10]

😂😂😂👍🏾

[@raditiyavalendeto4112]

Me too

[@Surf456]

Microdosing

[@apollothecoderule.8639]

this is the comment I was looking for

[@Razrman]

I too could see Zukerberg behind that face

[@BigJyeTV]

Meanwhile somewhere in the U.S. an honest business owner is struggling to make ends meet. smh

[@zazabrown732]

Exactly. If all these billionaire investors would invest a million in 20 regular companies, it would create.way more jobs and change more lives than all these techpreneurs who require hundreds of millions and know nothing

[@BigJyeTV]

@@zazabrown732 Yes!

[@MisterLumpkin]

@@zazabrown732 - It's all who you know. Holmes was born rich and connected to power players.

[@Dragon-Believer]

Henry Kissinger and Hillary Clinton. How can you doubt that company?

[@johntate6537]

@@Dragon-Believer Sociopaths of a feather flock together.

[@GeorgetteBu]

Imagine how her two children will feel when they find out that they were conceived in an effort to reduce or prevent their rotten mother from going to prison.

[@sweethysteria8737]

Just as I feel bad for her victims, I feel bad for her children. Only had as a tool by an unloving mother, and due to the vindictive nature of the public, they’ll no doubt suffer for their mother’s actions

[@moisemensah8233]

​@@sweethysteria8737I hope these kids, once grown, will break the cycle their mother and grandfather (he was part of the Enron debacle) created and will grow to become sane, honest and level-headed adults. Narcissism isn't necessarily passed on from one generation onto the next. For example, Shane McMahon and his kids are known to be professional and kind despite having a monster like Vince as a direct relative.

[@mctooch]

And the rest of us were conceived bc our dads had the most of noble of intentions

[@moisemensah8233]

@@huhwhatomg I'm reporting you for racism !

[@mozartsbumbumsrus7750]

​@@moisemensah8233Wishful thinking. Free Will is a myth like the Easter Bunny!

[@nabeelwork2747]

Fake it till you make it does not work on exact sciences

[@sirjay6655]

it does if your a woman.

[@UnbreakableRukawa]

well it almost did, according to the bullshit media.

[@goyonman9655]

It doesn't That's why I love sciences

[@peroxisome1]

@@sirjay6655 Doesn't work for women (or men)- as we see here.

[@laturista1000]

@@peroxisome1 true! Thought the world gave special privileges to blonde blue eyed ivy league women, but i guess Justice will triumph! Hope she gets jail time! a long jail sentence. Imagine if a customer at Walgreens got a wrong medical diagnosis or wrong prescription because of false blood tests by Theranos. Imagine the danger! If Holmes gets off the hook for this one, I will lose faith in Justice system.

[@hggfvjhg]

When Elizabeth come out of prison, she would write a memoir detailing her scamming experiences. Her book will become the best selling book of the year. Then she become a motivational speaker for the crowd and she can make millions again, just like Jordan Belfort in Wolf of the Wall Street. History always repeats.

[@1984-d3g]

Chieng Raymond wow i bet you’re right

[@wiredwithwalsh6282]

Of course she will!

[@Vednier]

Like Andrew Fastow from Enron, lol. he was too, kind of evil genius.

[@leopoldoastudillo7189]

I hate you but you are fucking rigjt!

[@JN-bq9wu]

You nailed it

[@adrianchannelle8651]

Her dad was...an ENRON executive. 😂 He taught his daughter well.

[@BuckeyeNationRailroader]

Makes sense

[@MrSp0iler]

she is hillary clinton son

[@evertonporter7887]

"Always two there is, the master and his apprentice." - Yoda

[@immortelle8919]

She doesn't sound so bad..afterall

[@Enonymouse_]

if the shoe fits..

[@pgbrown12084]

I worked at Walgreens when this was going on. It was embarrassing and disturbing. Walgreens poured money into this company and, at the same time, slashed store budgets and staff. They gutted their Frontline for a scam, then blamed the frontline when they realized they got conned and sales started slumping. They're still making cuts to this day trying to recover the lost money.

[@blurrydog1]

so this is why when I go to walgreens there’s like 2 employees in the store 😭

[@Lee-n2n1t]

@@blurrydog1Yeap! So sad 😢we have to pay for it now.

[@Jaxymann]

Management fucks up, and the workers take the fall to spare the blushes of the higher ups. Tale as old as time.

[@dietdrpepper15]

Love how the grandfather didn't believe his educated smart grandson. 'Nah sonny, this woman who has never been to medical school, or even a college degree knows so much more than you, I trust her cause her voice is lower than yours.' I respect that guy for still telling the world about it, mostly to stick it to his grandfather.

[@SuperShecky]

Yup, Good old Republican grampa George Schultz, just doing the Republican thing: disregard science and expertise, in favor of a sweet blond face, the promise of a fat check dangled in front of him, and the opportunity to wag his finger at a young buck who had the temerity to tell the truth. Untrustworthy and foolhardy to the core, Republican behavior in a nutshell.

[@unstoppableExodia]

Like all the other people she scammed he got lost in her big blue eyes and forgot how to spot a bullshitter

[@AA-ed6ek]

@@SuperShecky Like your side?

[@nelly411]

@@SuperShecky That's why she donated to the Hillary Clinton campaign right and was invited to the Oval Office by Obama right..? Also fooled ol Joe Biden into believing her lies as well and securing more funding for her project. You're projecting an awful lot when iot of the blame seems to fall into the lap of the Democrats for not picking up on the obvious fraudulent behavior earlier.

[@SuperShecky]

@@nelly411 Yet who was it that wanted to *buy into* Theranos? Flaming liberals like Henry Kissenger. Bill Frist. Cox Media family. Rupert Murdoch. Betsy DeVos. James Mattis. And of course, good old Grampa Schultz. It's one thing to be cordial to Holmes. It's another to jump in for Team Theranos like these Republican chumps did, fall hook, line and sinker, and then pull the authority card when someone has the gall to point out that the venture was based on falsehoods. No projection here. Your hurt feelings should be directed to the conservatives who propped up the whole sham, using their privilege and position to add credibility and gravitas. Based solely on their privilege and position. But then again, privilege and position are cornerstone values among conservative Republicans, so they fell into this fool's feedback loop.

[@pekabhoo9653]

A lesson for everyone: Motivation is not a substitute for ability.

[@jesseleeward2359]

Story of my life

[@runningman6722]

@Peter Evans seems a bit broad and vague

[@victor95pc]

@Peter Evans Most of millionaires come from non-millionaires families, your thesis going puff lol, maybe this is more suitable for billionaires

[@scee8474]

@Peter Evans so much to unpack here

[@DajuSar]

@Peter Evans Did you know that 123.753972% of people just makes up statistics without any real background or reference

[@ThatWeirdoRightThere]

Yeah the first red flag is that she dropped out of school to create medical tech with basically no medical knowledge

[@user-uy1rg8td1v]

She basically got billions of dollars in investment because she was an attractive woman. Just goes to show being an attractive woman is live on easy mode. She probably has some money stashed away somewhere, she'll serve her slap on the wrist prison/probation sentence and retire to some tropical island.

[@tsean1106]

Yao Lou M big stretch most attractive women can’t even touch her levels do bulk shit and tbh she isn’t that attractive.

[@upfulsoul826]

So what? To run a Start Up is about organizing people and keeping investors happy. You don't need to be an expert. You hire them.

[@upfulsoul826]

@@user-uy1rg8td1v That's bs. She got money because investors believed they would make money. There are women hotter than her that get laughed out the room.

[@suyanatsuri3982]

@@user-uy1rg8td1v No. It had nothing to do with her being a woman. Stop trying to bring gender politics into everything.

[@parisgreen4600]

"Bad Blood," the book by WSJ reporter John Carreyrou, is really good if you want to dig even deeper. Holmes didn't hesitate to go after Tyler Schultz through his own family - there's an incident where he goes to visit his grandfather (George Schultz) to try again to warn him, and he gets ambushed by Theranos lawyers who were already WAITING IN THE HOUSE.

[@karlbassett8485]

An excellent book, and I remember that incident. Schultz believed Holmes rather than his own grandson, and helped the company ambush him. On the other hand, as this video mentions, Rupert Murdoch comes out quite well. Despite having invested money in Theranos he let his journalists report on and expose the company.

[@tarvindermarwah]

that's a psychological thriller right there

[@cristinagarcia1652]

The book really does read like a psychological thriller. You can't put it down and all the way can't believe it could possibly be a true story.

[@JoshSweetvale]

@@cristinagarcia1652 Someone call the guy who did Chernobyl.

[@GodlikeIridium]

As a polititician she would be f***ing rich now and in a high position...

[@jwilliams5857]

Clinton connections

[@joshreddy4278]

Trump

[@arricammarques1955]

Sadly, your spot on mate.

[@joshreddy4278]

Hải Đăng , ha true!

[@tiitto167]

@Hải Đăng You know the hole sillicon valley is run by demo, lefties that to smart for theme self. or any one else for that matters.

[@riotwire]

As a natural low voice lady, that is the fakest low lady voice I've ever heard in my life. It's painful to listen to and you can hear the strain in her vocal chords.

[@ItsMeVolatility]

Vaucha Mach Agreed! So obviously put on and fake. It shows how much she lies if she’ll try and dupe people about her voice, of all things.

[@brynleytalbot778]

Lots of successful people take elocution lessons to fit into their new world accessed by their wealth. I'd love to hear a Royal Correspondent speak in a broad Northern accent. I often think it's put on. Even the Queen no longer speaks with the accent she once had.

[@ItsMeVolatility]

Brynley Talbot In my opinion (of course!), it’s more of a tonality thing rather than in her accent. She has her larynx placed like she’s always about to yawn, which brings down the pitch of your voice. It feels really unnatural to strain your throat like that 24/7. I agree it relates to how one wants to come off in professional situations! For her though, I don’t find she sounds more or less educated depending on her voice change. Her accent sounds the same to me.

[@riotwire]

@@wilmagregg3131 Yes, that's it. She just sounds ill.

[@wilmagregg3131]

@@riotwire she sounds like she has a serious cold instead of a serious voice {sorry deleted my comment by misclick}

[@Hank..]

she should've gone into politics. She had a thirst for power, a disgusting and inhuman disregard for the well-being of others, a near-superhuman ability to charm and deceive people, and an outstanding talent for gathering the support of political string-pullers. If she'd had the patience to wait until she was 35, she would've been president.

[@kennypyne7821]

She would have done very well in that horrid swamp

[@thatgnaralooguy]

Who says she won't? Though she's probably burnt a little too many people.

[@jimzimmer2048]

@@thatgnaralooguy she fucked the rich people, no way she is getting into politics after that

[@thomasaquinas2600]

The whole thing was looks and image; being cool. If Elizabeth looked like Rosanne Barr, would anyone have invested? The answer is no. The defense rests.

[@jonathanathor117]

WW3 would have happened 10 years sooner.

[@123carol321]

As a pathologist its absolutely insane to me that anyone bought this. One drop of blood isnt even sufficient for basic cell counts in the automated machine and even in those there's things we should be weary like the effect of lipemia (one of the reasons you need to be fasted for your analysis) not to mention biochemistry and endocrinology. This isn't possible with such little sample

[@JoshSweetvale]

Any smart rich person would call a university professor - or even their kid's (private)high school chemist. And get told the basic law of averages spiel of 'more samples is better, and you can't tech your way out of that.'

[@PandaCake978]

Throw enough fancy graphics and buzzwords at rich people and they'll fund anything. I mean think about the current "ai" trend. It can do some pretty impressive stuff, yes. But a LLM is not an "ai" that can do literally everything like that a human can.

[@celinek5422]

With current technology, yes. But they were developing new technology that they claimed would be able to do that. It’s not impossible in principle

[@JoshSweetvale]

@@celinek5422 Yes it is. Any tech that can do what they claimed would've *revolutionized ALL production.* Desktop mass-spectrometry requires miniaturization - and thus improvement - of everything from computing to optics to _mechanicals_ to be completely impossible without, at the very least, greedily filing another few dozen patents. It's _centuries_ away, not decades.

[@mlisaj1111]

And it may have worked as a business (if the system worked) but was a terrible idea medically. If you run tests just because you can…the tests aren’t designed for that…they are carefully normed for those with symptoms or risk factors. So even if accurate 99.9% of the time, if you run 200 per person, the majority of people who get a “positive” result actually be negative, and it’s just a lab error (false positives). So now you have a lab test that one of your cancer markers is elevated, which leads to worry, more tests, more appointments, maybe a scan or biopsy, just to prove that lab result it was a false positive and the person is fine. Collectively, that is a huge waste of healthcare resources. And we can run large lab panels now. They are actively discouraged, and docs are taught to have a good reason behind every lab ordered. AND many patients don’t follow the pre-test restrictions for just ONE lab test, let alone 200 at once, which will generate more wrong results that still need a work-up.

[@laser_simon922]

I find it so strange, that in my studies we have to come up with so many fake projects and products, and the lecturer would question every single small detail and can immediately tell if something wouldn't work out or is done wrong. But somehow companies like Theranos or Nikola can make Billions without a real product and no-one notices it or just ignore any signs of fraud completely...

[@cristic767]

this is the big mystery for me too.

[@kheerasousa5931]

One word ✨MONEY✨

[@MrRyan-wu4jx]

Blinded by greed. Also I guess fake deep voices impress people.

[@freewind6368]

That’s because your teacher is not having $10,000,000+ waved in front of his face, and only has to deal with a 100 max people at a time, while 1000s of companies like these are made everyday day(talking about starting a concept, not the fraud), so some of them slip through the net, while most either go bankrupt or called off because not all business people are dumb, after all they are the same business men/women, whose scam millions out of their hard earn dollar a day. So yea most companies and idiot CEOs like her are usually dropped pretty fast, but she and a few others are the ones that slipped through the cracks.

[@LalithoTheRedBorderCollie]

White rich privilege

[@eezeepee]

The Fyre Festival of the medical industry.

[@hw5215]

Patrick-Julian Q. Fulgado Haha I was thinking this🤣

[@bundangbear]

I cam here to say the same thing!

[@ManuelMenchaca]

Fyre Fest 2.0 sponsors: Theranos, Enron, Vemma and Madoff Investment Securities!

[@LordSkella]

You beat me to it! 😆

[@charlesml3]

It's funny you mention that. I just watched that documentary and there are some very striking similarities between Elizabeth and Billy. They both believed if they just kept going, it would somehow just happen...

[@Skank_and_Gutterboy]

3:05 As an engineer, this is what pissed me off about Holmes. She going around telling people that she's "a trained engineer" when she went to school for 18 months and had zero working knowledge in that field. The first year is all math, chemistry, and physics prerequisite courses, so she took 3 or 4 actual engineering classes at most. It's like dropping out of medical school a year into the program and telling people that you're a doctor. What a scumbag.

[@dandydasyt4766]

can substantiate this. Studying as mechanical engineering major, first year was spent studying fundamental algebra and physics, second year you starts going into strength of material, machine elements and machine mechanism along with engineer schematic drawing, year 3, you learn to write thesis, practical workshop time and internship, finally year 4 is when you write your grad thesis and defense, before a wait time of 3 year before you get your PhD. Calling Elizabeth Holmes an engineer is like calling Hitler the second Leonardo Da Vinci .

[@shaundiltz5821]

Lol. Happens all the time

[@jekblom123]

She's young, pretty and female. She has everything except being of a minority.

[@cobar5342]

'Scumbag' is a bit up the chain from where she lies

[@SilkyLew]

@@jekblom123 Right? Women and minorities get away with everything. Let's get rid of them

[@afasico9669]

There were two main whistleblowers, Erika Cheung (who is always erased from the narrative - here she was displayed but not even named) and Tyler Shultz. They both faced severe pressure because they decided to speak up.

[@alexvratsanos5227]

That’s Erika at 17:55, right?

[@afasico9669]

Yes, that's her.

[@JET7C0]

Regarding her not caring about her senior employee's suicide: she also had no qualms about doing unreliable tests for cancer patients, lying to people giving her hundreds of millions, etc. Meanwhile, her dad (and probably childhood role model) was one of the execs at Enron, who were famously on tape joking about how they were screwing the elderly over, like cliched movie villains, so it's not exactly a shocker she didn't care a guy killed himself because of her lies.

[@spyce1102]

WOW! That’s insane!

[@mickeydrago9401]

It's called sociopathology

[@seemlyme]

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The Punishment is endless for Sinners/Devil according to religious scriptures. But God is love always. Overcome hate with love. If all religions for peace, unity? No way. Because they are not for peace. 8) Well, The God gave us everything to go from moment to moment in our lives as we do our part and pray only to thank god then the Love is in progress. The Love is always for everyone. We are always worthy of the God's love. Our greatest fear is; not to be loved by anyone but we are all loved by someone. When we eliminate all our unnecessary differences among us then true peaceful life is possible with the true love. If we can't find the peace within ourselves then we will never find it anywhere else. 9) This is the Fight for independence and freedom of humanity to worship God freely without religious guide and guidelines to restrict us. Unnecessarily, We do not want third party controls over us in anything ; especially in spirituality. 10) Revive Survive Thrive. 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[@-toma-8461]

@@seemlyme You wrote a book on youtube! Congratz! That being said. Yeah... addictive drugs are bad... and there are plenty of them.... Just KEEP DOING THEM HAHAHAHH!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!! PRAISE THE LORD!

[@seemlyme]

-TomA- 🙂 Be sensible more. And read all. No one can get anything from nothing? Nothing means not anything. So nothing do not exist. All are happening right here and right now. All are one. right and left, Good and bad are part of measurement of value and size. No one knows all the true values and size. No one knows; what is going on all around us all the time. Creation is happening right here right now. The food /water in front of you, turning into you. So on. Life is creation here. So, All are now kzbin.info/www/bejne/hmmoc6qMbrqWqqs Life and rocks are totally intertwined through billions of years of earth history kzbin.info/www/bejne/rqrLi5Z7jpqDebM Source of creation kzbin.info/www/bejne/mpqto6WXhLF5a80 Only time truly you are okay. When you are okay with everything. Everything will be alright; does not mean everything will stay the same. Truth is authority. Not other way around. All are one. Scientists said all are one in the beginning. Quantum theory is most right than general relativity. Because gravity is quantised. All are quantised. Science based on evidence. so It can be predictable and experimental. We don’t want to waste time so sensible and reasonable. instagram.com/loveisdecision kzbin.info/www/bejne/fpPZdKuDm8h-rJY kzbin.info/www/bejne/aZqudXSeg8SbopY kzbin.info/www/bejne/hZTNn4CMgreWndE kzbin.info/www/bejne/j2TbkqdjpJlrbLM kzbin.info/www/bejne/rX3dlpShgKhpnKc

[@nano7586]

I feel sorry for the scientists who really wanted to make this project succeed in a truthful manner

[@tvviewer4500]

The whole point was to crush these new avenues of medicine so that doctors could keep the standards low and keep calling you fat while they try to stab you with a bunch of things.

[@josep9016]

ya

[@forickgrimaldus8301]

Problem is you can't just run a test in one machine, there are literally different kinds of samples for a machine, you can't even run tests in some samples because based on physiology or the tubes used they simply don't appear.

[@forickgrimaldus8301]

There is literally an order of draw for a blood Sample because of this.

[@forickgrimaldus8301]

There are a lot of POC tests (usually Immunological based, using antibodies and antigens) so inventing such a wonder would be a miracle but it would be decades if not generations down the line.(and likely is actually a big "machine" with each component a machine in itself.)

[@sablebranwen2539]

This reminds me of the time my first friend and I wanted to make a machine that would transport us to TV and movie worlds. A problem arose when we realized that neither of us knew how to build such a device, which was only compounded by the fact that said machine was going to be made out of logs.

[@typhenix6952]

How can I invest in this?

[@helenarichard]

@@typhenix6952 small loan of a million dollar

[@JessBlake2]

LOL, dream big! You can do whatever you want to do, be whatever you want to be, just put your mind to it! And ummm...... well just put aside the small matter of stealing from others and causing untold suffering around the world, because you really do deserve to make at least 2 million dollars a day. Logs? It could happen, lol.

[@BalliBee]

What a cool idea! Kids have great imaginations..... I think Hollywood bet you to the punch though with Last Action Hero. Still, great idea 😄👌📺

[@captainbellybutton9009]

@jonathan riley based

[@akashicklovebpd1264]

This will never get old. It's like an adult bedtime story 😆

[@iidentifyasaPSLGoddess]

I thought I was gonna click this then remove it 3 minutes in. Its been almost 2 yrs, I've watched countless videos on theranos case since then, including this video, so tell me why I'm 16 minutes in??? Lol

[@yourmedicalupdatepodcast7256]

😂😂😂😂😂🤣🤣🤣

[@sabir1208]

Literally is my bedtime story, I have watched this so many times going to bed😂

[@bentonrp]

Yeah! And her personal wealth was estimated at 5 billion? Geez, Elizabeth ! ; Step 1: Grow a brain. Step 2: Take out a billion $ loan. Step 3: Buy a lot of hard assets that aren't in your name. Step 4: Buy a new identity and leave your evil company behind. 🤣! It's not that hard!

[@buyimajola4245]

There is a bunch of these. I just finished watching Sam Bankman Fried and Trevor Milton. Just internet gold I tell you.

[@hardworkingcriminal4873]

The voice deception is one of the most bizarre things I've every heard of.

[@vizthex]

same

[@sina3602]

The lengths women go through in order to be taken seriously by men in their field is more sad than bizarre tbh

[@FunBoysGaming]

@@sina3602 I don’t judge a woman by her voice. I‘d if she were obviously altering it.

[@sina3602]

@@FunBoysGaming 0 critical thinking skills

[@PaulHoleybatch]

​@@sina3602 The lengths are not so great when you consider that men receive 60+% longer sentences while women are also significantly less likely to avoid convictions altogether (and even twice as likely to avoid incarceration if convicted); plus the judge is less likely to recommend prison due to childcare (this via cnbc). Let's not forget that today it's almost illegal not to hire a woman just because of diversity, regardless of qualification. It's almost like the whole thing is rigged for 'holmeses' like her to flourish.

[@JoelReid]

When i first heard of Theranos as a science teacher, I had my doubts. i asked my wife, who works in pathology (blood testing) she literally scoffed in laughter, because it is impossible. You see, some of the tests they were claiming require such low concentrations that you absolutely need a large amount of blood. You can not accurately (a strong requirement for administering good health advice) test a small amount of blood for some of the tests they were claiming required only a drop.

[@daengselili9245]

Back when I was little, it was impossible to watch tv in the palm of my hand. Not at present day..

[@JoelReid]

@@daengselili9245 this is not an issue of somethign not existing, it is an issue of there beign enough molecules to get a reliable reading. If you sprinkle sugar in a glass of water, there will be some areas of higher concentration. Thus you need to sample a reasonable amount of the water to get a precise average. In blood you are often looking at less than a grain of molecules dissolved in over 5 litres of blood.

[@ergoth154]

@@daengselili9245 Shut up

[@leonfa259]

@@JoelReid A grain of molecules is still ~10^20 molecules. If you take 0,05ml than ~10^15 molecules should be inside, making for a statistically accurate sample. Some Antigen tests claimed to only need 50 antigens in the sample.

[@JoelReid]

@@leonfa259 Theranos samples were showing innaccurate results becasue of their sample size. you can detect i, sure. but your accuracy in teh amount will be way out

[@Simonio8]

Well, I'm kinda impressed by her level of manipulation. She talked her way out of being fired when it was already decided beforehand.

[@RIZFERD]

Blond is blond. West is west = fraud.

[@abhinavsinha2104]

Can’t believe she wasn’t audited once

[@calska140]

I've done that, I'm stupid. It's not impressive.

[@belland_dog8235]

@@calska140 Yeah mate, difference is she talked her way out of being fired as a CEO of a multimillion dollar company, and you probably talked your way out of being fired as the checkout dude at Walmart.

[@Doesitreallymstter]

I wish I was a fly on the wall for that one

[@light95111]

I applied for a machinist position at Theronos in early 8/2012 in Palo alto headquater. For an operator position I was very surprise that I got interviewed by a chief engineer, a medical researcher, QC manager and lastly by both Liz and Sunny. When she told me she was the founder I was at awe at her very young, pretty look and smartness to be founding such an important company. I was so hopeful getting hire but was very disappointed when I never heard back after 1 weeks. Few years later they went bankrupt for fraud. I remember thinking it is a blessing in disguise for not getting hire.

[@paoloverdini8374]

With a dramatic tone: "she didn't leave her room for 5 days, and slept 2 hours a night". Wow, that's like... a regular end-of-term week in college. Should I be astonished?

[@chellefell1331]

lol, yeah and that was her story.... so I'm thinking it's not true like her existence of a soul!

[@Colddirector]

Considering the damage that can do to your body, that really shouldn't be a thing that anybody does or has to do.

[@MotorcycleWrites]

@@Colddirector welcome to academia! Where we all hate ourselves and gain very little

[@kullervo_k]

@@MotorcycleWritesI haven't had to do this. Are you talking of the US?

[@MotorcycleWrites]

@Peter Evans unfortunately in order to do complicated things, you have to do a lot of thinking first. Building a satellite isn’t something you can just “do”, as much as I wish it was.

[@acb9896]

That voice sounds like a 13 year old boy ordering a pizza with his mom's credit card.

[@anthonyreed480]

Lmao accurate. Baffling how anyone bought this. "Oh easy to say in hindsight" - no, the first time I heard this bitch I was like wtf is she doing that voice for?

[@elifelif2805]

🤣

[@kafkaesk3449]

Accurate and Softbank be like: Woop... 1 billion for you

[@surefmeurope5766]

One very expensive pizza!!!!!!!

[@kukalakana]

When she slips up it sounds like the men pretending to be women pretending to be men in Monty Python's "stoning" scene. "I'm sorry I thought we'd started."

[@lotusthemermaid]

So what you're saying is, if I just lower my voice to sound like a man and stop blinking, I can become a billionaire

[@wyatt5167]

@@60sMark909 Rich people have kinky fetishes

[@prepperjonpnw6482]

Billionaire lol Not millionaire lol

[@MikeRochac]

Yes! Fuck knowledge! 😂

[@PlaylistProductions]

Yes! and then the consequences of course

[@BillAnt]

Basically a black turtle-neck, a fake male voice, and no blinking is what makes you billions. She's a sick puppy!

[@shogun2215]

Sometimes when you look into someone's eyes, you see evil staring straight back at you. This is one of those times.

[@skylar_kada]

KZbin suggestions: *Theranos, Theranos, Theranos ! Theranos ! THERANOS!1!* me: no, thanks KZbin: *THERANOOOO-* Me: *OK, FiNe!*

[@00st307-m]

Skylar Kadambi lol ok thanks, so it’s not just me 🤣

[@whynotbanana]

same for me! been bugging me for a week now lol

[@skylar_kada]

Becky Monarrez lol I thought it was only me too until now! 🤣

[@Salem_Rabbit]

Thanos

[@skylar_kada]

Saddam Butt lol I literally typed Thanos instead of Theranos when I first posted that comment! Thanks, cause I thought I was the only one who saw it as Thanos 😂 🙏

[@MondoLeStraka]

I worked in Silicon Valley in the 80s. I believe every word of this! All you have to do is talk like the way they want to hear it! You don't even have to know the product itself. And some of these companies will belive everything you say. As long as you use the industry language! More later.

[@cruisingwithoutsail6585]

Whats the industry language?

[@MondoLeStraka]

@@cruisingwithoutsail6585 The terminology they use.

[@kookiecastro8452]

are they paying you good,m

[@somethingsomethingsomethingg]

Isn't that basically corporate sector like all over the world?!

[@MondoLeStraka]

@@somethingsomethingsomethingg Actually not. They may have their own "framing", but they do not assume someone knows their job, etc, because use the same language.

[@dariusq8894]

Elizabeth Holmes scares the shit out of me. Her entire persona (especially her gigantic piercing eyes) gives me the impression she's trying to hypnotize people. I fully expect that even if she's found guilty for her crimes that she will escape jail time.

[@huskiehuskerson5300]

One punch and she's knocked out I ain't scared

[@lanreoshisami8934]

She will

[@Rr17user]

Exactly, I didn’t even try to look straight at her eyes in that Time magazine cover page on this video, was weird and hypnotizing, I felt negative vibes. Creepy

[@dariusq8894]

@@brookinghouseof9457 She mislead sick people... ...and got caught. 😜

[@dariusq8894]

@@brookinghouseof9457 Slap on the wrist for sure. She just had a baby.

[@joejoerunya8908]

Imagine a founder of a medical company in her early 20’s with no medical training

[@Longtack55]

In 2002, Holmes attended Stanford, where she studied chemical engineering and worked as a student researcher and laboratory assistant in the School of Engineering. After the end of her freshman year, Holmes worked in a laboratory at the Genome Institute of Singapore and tested for severe acute respiratory syndrome coronavirus (SARS-CoV-1) through the collection of blood samples with syringes. Henry Ford had no training, except as an apprentice machinist, and was self-taught other than that. He was in his 20s when he built his first car, which he drove for 1000+ miles.

[@joejoerunya8908]

@@Longtack55 she dropped out though. Just like the video said.. medicine takes decades of research. And Henry Ford knew engines and moving parts. He didn’t go to college, but working on engines isn’t something you needed to go college for. Plus, there was no college for him to go to

[@fabiokaya202]

@@Longtack55 what a shit comparison. Stay in school.

[@Longtack55]

@@fabiokaya202 How about "Stay learning?" My point was that if you have a passionate dream and want to pursue it then you can get people who have the skills that you lack on board to bring it to fruition. Tell me what is the point of attending college to study Mechanical Engineering (a four year bachelors' degree where I come from) when you can just build a jet engine at home and Boeing will strap it onto their aircraft?

[@fabiokaya202]

@@Longtack55 your logic is dumb af. Keep bringing stupidity to fruition.

[@jaytakajeremiahtisdale2042]

She looks insane in every one of the photos,pictures and video footage of her.

[@shreyalabhane]

Someone finally said it!

[@jout738]

She got the biggest narsissistic eyes I have ever seen and still some billionares invested 125 million on her thinking she will change the world. I just dont understand this.😂

[@lorelei9884]

Welp.. most leaders were proven psychopaths. Some known people were looked insane but no one bats an eye coz they've succeeded. She is just labeled insane because she is proven guilty.

[@gummy5862]

Yea, in hindsight. People always “look” crazy once you know what they’ve done. If she passed by you in the street, you wouldn’t even notice her.

[@asimmehmood8868]

Yeah, she has this dazed wide-eyed-staring-in-space look. Secondly, she looks like she is never acting natural and comfortable in media which makes her look fake and robotic.

[@charlesvan13]

That she idolized Steve Jobs is the first red flag. Steve Jobs was a marketer who took advantage of talented engineers. She hoped to do the same but the engineers in her company didn't succeed. There was no invention to take credit for, so she resorted to fraud.

[@mrkiky]

Well she had no vision either. She dropped out of college at 19yo to create amazing breakthroughs in medicine. It takes 10 years to get decent specialization in a field of medicine. A 19yo would have to be an absolute super genius to achieve this. She wasn't an absolute super genius , she was just a very talented manipulator with no regards for anyone but herself. She had no idea whether the thing she wanted to create was just around the corner or decades away. Steve Jobs was in a much better position in his field.

[@HeartBDoctor]

If Joseph Goebbels and Heinrich Himmler were alive today, both would have appointed Elizabeth to Fuhrer of Nazi Medical Sciences. Who knows what kind of experiments she might have had done on imprisoned Jewish people?

[@rykehuss3435]

mrkiky I'd argue it takes a lot longer than 10 years in medicine to get anywhere, let alone to be able to call yourself a "specialist". Especially when it comes to medicine technology and research.

[@laierr]

Except Jobs knew the limits of technology and understood them. He was engineer himself. And that's a HUGE difference.

[@vibemunster]

Calling the machine 'Edison' was a bit of a giveaway.

[@fmhummel]

A simple traditional blood picture test doesn't take "a few days" as said here. It takes 20 minutes. It just takes a few days if you have to send it in and wait for the paperwork to come back. Urgent tests at hospitals can be done very quickly.

[@JoshSweetvale]

But in a lab the size of a motor vehicle. Not an air fryer.

[@fmhummel]

@@JoshSweetvale Have you seen modern POCT devices? The are about the size of a mini-fridge and can give you the results in just a few minutes. They are just more expensive to run and not very accurate.

[@JoshSweetvale]

@@fmhummel "and not very accurate" Which is why you need a dozen specialized machines. For *medical diagnosis.*

[@psyguyyggdrasil9071]

This video was made 5 years ago the tech may have gotten better in that time

[@JoshSweetvale]

@@psyguyyggdrasil9071 It's not tech, it's biochemics. You can't physically get more results from less material. Not without more sensitive (read: bigger) equipment as well. Which would by definition also *reduce accuracy.* More is always better, which means more measuring equipment is better results. And just imagine stuffing half a hundred vials, shakers and heaters into an easy-bake. *Trying to do both? At once?* No. That'll require decades of work.

[@sf6555]

Have also seen in other videos how she NEVER gives an actual technical answer when asked for a scientific one for the Theranos machines.When asked she says "People doubt me because I'm breaking ground/ they feel threatened/ I'm changing the industry" but not ever a medical explanation. Even if you don't have a medical background, as CEO you need to be able to explain your product.

[@KanishQQuotes]

Because I am a wahmen

[@TheRedSphinx]

She sounds like a 12 year old boy trying to imitate his dad, calling in sick to school. "So, uuuum, Jimmy will be home, uuuummm, the rest of the week, uuuuummm....he's got a bout of, uuuum, malaria, so uuuuuuuum...."

[@z_ed]

The accuracy 🤯

[@Bitplex]

hahah, except instead of malaria it's herpes (since that's the only actual diagnostic the theranos machines could accurately run).

[@buchan1965a]

Holy hell... MacInTalk from 1985 sounded more realistic than her fake "I'm-pitching-my-voice-low-so-you-take-me-seriously" act.

[@billcobbett9259]

She sounds like Cher

[@chillier8363]

Hahaha!!

[@swalkers8008]

It’s not a failure, but a scam

[@Marva123]

Thats how I feel. The top investors were in on it or just wanted to make a quick buck and get out before they blew the whitsle

[@FungusTrooper]

I think he meant it's a failure of the system that allowed this to happen at all.

[@Marva123]

@@FungusTrooper Thats a euphemism for protecting the people who make up the "system" its so people will have cognitive dissonance and not blame individuals and instead blame some faceless entity, in this case as you called it the "system"

[@laturista1000]

exactly Elizabeth Holmes is a certified ivy league dropout CON ARTIST. She bamboozled Rupert Murdoch, Secretary DeVos, Walmart heirs and other investors. She even fooled billionaire Oracle founder Larry Elison. This is serious shit!!! Investors reportedly lost over $600 million on Theranos. Holmes needs to be JAILED!!!!!! She is a pyschopath with no remorse for endangering healthcare patients at Walgreens. False blood test readings could have hurt someone.

[@jasonstephens1001]

A scam that was encouraged by many incredibly smart people. Look at all the comments trying to say she outsmarted everyone. Lol. These fools give her WAY too much credit. All those pictured in the video (and many others) essentially allowed this to play out exactly as it has.

[@dingdongs5208]

And Theranos employed mostly immigrants and international students on graduate visas. These people would lose their visas if fired which is why they were easy to intimidate and keep quiet

[@DandA604]

Uhm, those giant eyes, almost unblinking as she looks at someone, that’s... NOT good.

[@aminebe1263]

its Mark Zuckerberg in disguise

[@jhett7]

Good ol shark eyes

[@DandA604]

Amine Be ...On the nose. :(

[@DandA604]

jhett7 ...It’s so creepy. :(

[@jhett7]

However, I’ll bet that her doing that with her eyes is just another thing she does to try and manipulate people. Another part of the act. Or maybe she’s just crazy.

[@robotjeans]

News articles should stop labeling her an "entrepreneur". She was a con artist

[@robotjeans]

@Anthony Emrick true true

[@ashleelmb]

@Anthony Emrick Right firstly, I know you've just took that meaning from Google definitions, but Google arent the only credible source for definitions out there. And lets be honest .That definition could be better. So, looking at that, she didn't actually take on any financial risks. None of the money that was risked was hers. So she had no financial risk. She just hoarded everyone else's by lying to get it and probably took dividends out of the money to live on herself. She sold an idea on a promise to deliver but never did so she fell short of being an entrepreneur. She was a crook. So here's another definition by dictionary.com: Entrepreneur: a person who organizes and manages any enterprise, especially a business, usually with considerable initiative and risk. So, what's a business? Dictionary.com definition: Business: an occupation, profession, or trade. And what's an occupation? Dictionary.com definition: Occupation: a person's usual or principal work or business, especially as a means of earning a living; vocation. She falls short because she didn't do any work. She participated in fraud. She can't be described as an entrepreneur. Theres a line and she didn't cross the line to become one.

[@ashleelmb]

@Anthony Emrick Yeah, they will be. But some descriptions are more specific than others and its that key distinction that helps draw a line between describing something as a particular thing rather than another thing that's similar but not quite correct.

[@JohnChoidotOrg]

IS a con artist. You don't go from being a con artist to working a normal job. She'll try again.

[@JohnChoidotOrg]

@Anthony Emrick ok.

[@Vpaid]

As a former Safeway/Vons Employee, this finally explains why our CEO poured millions of dollars into Pharmacy/Wellness Center waiting rooms that went unused for decades. Incredible.

[@rodneyjhackenflash4865]

But Safeway no doubt will make up for all those wasted millions by jacking up its already sky-high supermarket food prices.

[@humbleguy1533]

wasn't it because Safeway was desperate after getting reamed by their grocery competitors and he was trying to find some hook to get customers?

[@GirlFriday68]

@@rodneyjhackenflash4865 and I am sure the CEO responsible still got a huge bonus, while the employees were making minimum wage and on food stamps

[@jathebest2835]

So...how's the room going on? Has it got renovated for another use or what??

[@kaykayron2222]

@@jathebest2835 I waited in a Safeway waiting room while they gave me a flu shot. Seems like a great wasted space. I had wondered why this waiting room existed.

[@khoahuynh6884]

Thank you for not adding loud and dramatic music in the background like other channels.

[@omidfilms]

She copied everything about Steve Jobs except the most important thing never release an unfinished product

[@KSloyan]

@ADJ30168 Yes, there is more to this than we are being told here... alarm bells went off when I heard "Stanford". More went off when it said that Richard Fuisz is CIA.

[@johnnyllooddte3415]

ahaha jobs released a 1000 faulty products and they still do ahahah... they just raise the price for the groupies

[@KSloyan]

@@johnnyllooddte3415 When you think about.... almost all electronic devices don't quite function as they are supposed to. lol Theranos is no exception. lol

[@StephenLynx8492]

Omid Films Now if only Bethesda could learn from Steve Jobs’s example.

[@apimpnamedslickback7115]

This is a golden rule

[@Arbbym9er]

Lol, her dad was the VP of Enron... Guess the apple doesn't fall far from the tree.

[@PlasmaKong2]

Holy sh*t :D

[@cmdr_krabov]

"selfmade billionaire" my ass

[@every2464]

Naaaaaaaahhhhh! that's mad

[@marmoset3]

@Aurore Aurore Just look at the climate emergency fraud, human stupidity is limitless.

[@annate4347]

wasn't the VP of Enron Sherron Watkins, a woman?

[@dhruvishkapadia3508]

She clearly is a brilliant candidate to study about Sociopathy for those interested in psychology. The blood test thing was a sham right in its premise because the finger prick only takes capillary blood which is appropriate for only limited tests. You need venous and sometimes even arterial blood for specific tests!

[@rosieroovs]

Today I learned that there are different types of blood in your body :-0 are all types limited to certain tests or is there one "area" that can allow all tests?

[@phokingamajing]

@@rosieroovs well usually the tests that work with capillary blood work just fine with venous blood (which arguably have the most range in terms of panels). Arterial blood is most commonly used in an Arterial Blood Gas (ABG) test, which is primarily for measuring the balance of Oxygen and Carbon Dioxide in one's body. Hope this helps a little!

[@gailwaters814]

She cculd have been AOC 1.0. No way she could have been fired for lethal incompetence!!! The world dodged a bullet!

[@rosieroovs]

@@phokingamajing oooh thats very interesting to know, thanks very much! Yes it did help😊😊

[@matthewdavis3421]

Never knew about that. However, for someone who does know with this kind of vision, if it were to realistically work, they'd need to rework the tests themselves too. Perhaps that's what Theranos was able to tell people they planned?

[@Hndshks]

I get the impression that this kind of situation (that is, fake/non-existent products and services that get massively over-invested in) goes on WAY more often within Silicon Valley than anyone wants to admit.

[@Michael-or2dg]

Too many egos not enough brains

[@Jaxymann]

Enron, Theranos and now FTX are the biggest debacles, but then think about they’re just the ones we know about. L

[@erikvynckier4819]

Daily.

[@kevinwydler4405]

You cant measure programming skill in "lines of code written". Writing more lines of code is usually a sign of inefficiency.

[@mikejohnstonbob935]

​@@toiletpaper4 sloc doesn't count empty lines and assigning to intermediate variables can make the code more readable and is good practice. you should rename the first query to search_phrase or something. Intermediate variables also provide plenty of opportunities for error checking, which is especially the case when parsing json. also Please migrate to the Google Custom Search API (developers.google.com/custom-search/)

[@JohnMoseley]

"Theranos' already sounded like the name of a super-villain.

[@KrishaWoo]

Yeah, idk.. Something like.. Thanos?

[@14MadhuKrishna]

@@KrishaWoo she would be his crazy ex.

[@fernforwood3989]

John Moseley My first thought when I saw this on my feed was that it was something about comic books.

[@bishhsasspusi2904]

Oh SNAP

[@katagenesis]

John Moseley I was literally about to comment this great minds think a like 🤔

[@thisiztheewae]

Felt like she was intially buying time hoping for a breakthrough and by the time she realises the mountain of challenges and obstacles, she was too deep in and the only way left is to continue. She definitely knew it is a ticking timebomb waiting to explode.

[@valberm]

She made the tempting mistake any layman is inclined to make: thinking that anything can be done if you just throw enough money at it.

[@mikkelnpetersen]

Also know as "fake it till you make it". Keep the lie going untill you can make it "truth". Problem is that it rarely works, and when it gets discovered MANY people gets hurt, and the longer it goes on, the more gets hurt.

[@Matt-cr4vv]

I read a memoir on this. I think she initially thought it was possible. And for awhile I think she genuinely thought she could somehow make it happen, hence the intense work demands and development. But eventually I think she got addicted to the fame she achieved. She was being viewed as the female Steve Jobs and viewed as a genius. And I tend to think that mattered most to her.

[@marhawkman303]

@Zoot Rollo yeah, if you admit failure... well.. that's like giving up your goal to get rich. show's over, time to pack it up and leave.

[@florenbaron7111]

Who knows, she might have been onto something.

[@johnhud2536]

Major investors Henry Kissinger 94 George Schultz 97 Rupert Murdoch 92 None with medical expertise. Elizabeth could work old rich men like a pro

[@apdroidgeek1737]

Owners of medical facilities are mostly business men... the company i work at is owned by a business men. Healthcare is money first patient care second, its always been money, the billing department will even have their job descriptions says to charge patients as much as possible.

[@Dragon-Believer]

Scammers often prey on old people.

[@SiViC74]

All douchebags

[@danfuerthgillis4483]

She was banged more than Hunter Biden's sister in law!!!! lol

[@schlauchflicker]

To be honest, I find it a bit naive to just say "omg they all believed her because she was just so charismatic, everyone else is guilt-free!". I am certain that the board and even the president did not actually care if their machine worked, it is all about the money. As long as they see a successful start-up on which they can either make money or good publicity, they are happy to cooperate and be seen together. It's all a hoax, everyone is in on it, to some extent. She is just the easy scapegoat. She will now face a trial and most liekly get away with minor consequences to her actions. All while thousands of patients, investors, family members etc. have been tricked by a greedy bunch of sociopaths that do not give a rat's ass about you or me. And it happens all the time, everywhere. This one just happened to be exposed. Think about it.

[@OldManTheseDays]

Absolutely.

[@Thewildwell]

This.

[@samcroft7084]

Exactly - that's why you have a board, they have oversight of the company. It should have been a huge red flag that the board members did not include any medical researchers, or biotechnologists of standing.

[@danherrick5785]

Look at the board members. These are elite/highly connected people. "These" people - the highest level people - seem to be completely in the dark. This is one of two possible things. 1. They were stupid. 2. They were part of a "plan". I seriously doubt that number one could be possible. That only leaves the other option being number two. The real question here is was the fuck was "the plan". I'm sure they succedded in there plan whatever it was? Maybe it was some crazy way of depleting funds from someone they didn't like??? The only other example of this insanity is the Federal Reserve Banking system...

[@eldritchperfection213]

nah if that was the case the guy that was the boss of the wallstreet journal would probably have been able to smell that the stuff is over

[@morkly29]

The name THERANOS sounds like a company that sells bio weapons to black market

[@AylaAnjel77]

No it sounds like THERMOS.Like the kind you drink stuff out of. They used to come in plastic lunch boxes for kids.

[@AylaAnjel77]

@Kevin Prima Top secret even his son in law can't get security clearance to view this technique. Its just that good! I mean GREAT just like America is now that Trump is in charge!

[@helenarichard]

Yeah it sounds like a combination of terminate, terrain and Thanatos (the Greek god of death...)

[@jenniferlawrence9473]

It's an acronym for 'Therapy' and 'Diagnosis'.

[@whoswhoo]

I kept thinking tyrannosaurus Rex .....a dinosaur long extinct ....

[@gordonliddy6997]

"If you repeat a lie long enough, people start to believe it." Sad but true.

[@troypatterson6013]

Trump's philosophy for life.

[@gamingbigfats3934]

@@guitarforall covid is real. The Easter bunny told me him self.

[@PeaceFan1]

Hence Donald Trump!!

[@rodneyjhackenflash4865]

Nowadays people are so heavily dumbed down they believe it the first time it's uttered.

[@Matt-he4qt]

@@guitarforall millions of people are infected and dying, and you're telling me this is a lie

[@annbettencourt6689]

This is the best summary of a this incredulous story I've come across, thanks!

[@davidsiffer4374]

Her father worked at Enron, I guess this kind of thing runs in the family

[@lordjim3109]

Yes, it explains a lot.

[@Highley1958]

Most people's DNA is made up of A,C,G, and T. The Holmes family's DNA is 100% BS.

[@Cklert]

I'm convinced that Enron executives were all part of an underground Cult.

[@cristalrivers1185]

@@Cklert PROBABLY, BECAUSE HOW SHE GET THERE SOUND FHISHY.???.

[@angelosecchi4053]

It becomes increasingly difficult to tell the difference between "visionary entrepreneur", "market barker" and "scammer".

[@asserakram1725]

I don't think there is a difference anymore

[@durshurrikun150]

There never was any difference.

[@davidanderson9664]

Like "New York real estate developer" and orange grifter/scammer/liar/narcist. Same difference. D.A., J.D., NYC

[@PowerfulSkeleton]

@Liberal Patriot Elon Musk, too.

[@WalkerRileyMC]

@@PowerfulSkeleton Muskrat used daddy's money to buy successful companies. Even SpaceX wasn't his idea...he met with a bunch of engineers who pitched it to him and he said "yea let's do that" and funded it. No, I'm NOT saying that funding a success story is a bad thing. But people talk as though he built SpaceX by himself in cave with a box of scraps. He did not. He funded an idea that was already in the late stages of planning.

[@RinoaL]

whats crazier? her eyes or her voice? lol

[@iloveplasticbottles]

Not her real voice

[@infera1]

But seriously, didnt people see thats shes complete sociopath and theres someting of about her? I could clearly see that from the first pictures of her, those eyes and body language... Must have been complete bitch to work with her...

[@jefdamen2977]

@@infera1 Indeed, reminds me of Hilary Clinton or her daughter. If she is a woman... Sketchy very sketchy...

[@polymyxa8233]

Her mind.

[@nicknevco215]

Yes that is her real voice she is weird. Her at TED : kzbin.info/www/bejne/b3PCoH2DhtBqa5Y

[@elscourou6654]

she is one of the worst people ever. she did such an injustice to women trying to legitimately and genuinely achieve that sort of success, and tested unsafe crap on cancer patients. she's getting exactly what she deserves

[@giorgiogazzola5972]

Her voice sounds like a kidnapper in a movie using a device to disguise their voice when making the ransom call.

[@emmettbattle5728]

i was going to say shes holding in a nasty burp lmaoooo

[@johnames6430]

she faked her deep voice, of course the media were scared to criticize her as questioning a woman is misogyny.

[@giorgiogazzola5972]

@@johnames6430 I'm surprised nobody has claimed that the feds are only going after her because she's a woman...

[@giorgiogazzola5972]

@@johnames6430 You misread my comment, sir.

[@johnames6430]

@@giorgiogazzola5972 ok, deleted

[@didndido3638]

"She didn't leave her room for five days and slept two hours a night to come up with..." ...with some fuckin' science fiction shite L.Ron Hubbard would be proud of, mate!

[@adityasanthosh702]

She should have started theranology LMAO

[@pkmntrainerlilly5]

That sounds like when I go into a manic phase of my bipolar disorder. It's not impossible, but it is definitely not something to be proud of either.

[@luislinan2266]

lmao same

[@shahsoftinc.2459]

Life changing idea pops up, it doesnt come up like that

[@BabyGirl-cw6uj]

She should've just stuck with writing

[@eddixon2015]

When Rupert Murdoch comes out looking like the most honorable person in a story, someone has really messed up.

[@denni8884]

Ed Dixon 🤣🤣🤣

[@ericamontel6634]

Ed Dixon kzbin.info/www/bejne/o6TFk39oic9spKc

[@ChristianCabralGDL]

I massively appreciate how you chose to end the video by mentioning breakthroughs that are real. You needed the palate cleanser and so did we lol.

[@marceloamericanbully9345]

She only started blinking when a case was filed against her

[@phanngochai2448]

"The youngest female billionaire" Source of income - lies and manipulation, and oh 'deep voice'. (Makes me respect even Zuckerberg now lol)

[@williamfabiano3352]

"One day, while in her car, Elizabeth was shot at, with the bullet just narrowly missing her. Despite this, she received a 1 million dollar seed investment from her old neighbor." I'm not sure how her close encounter with a bullet would have factored into the old neighbour's decision.

[@shiracremeans8156]

So this psychopath is out & about, while people caught with minor amounts of drugs are spending years in prison. Isn’t our legal system great???

[@gbtn92]

😂

[@siddharth_kashyap_A]

That's what I thought. 😂😂

[@kromtastic]

This still blows my mind. I had a career as a lab tech and phlebotomist before working at a local Walgreens in the pharmacy. I remember my pharmacist asking me "can they do all these with a drop?" I quicky stated no, not with a drop. While we did use microtubes for newborns , even these were difficult sometimes as CBCs would immediately fail should the blood clot. Microtainers were notorious for having insufficient potassium anticoag lining for their blood. Regardless, most tests run off serum which is an EVEN smaller sample of blood. Other than a specific item of a met or lipid panel, there's no way a drop could run 99% of these tests.

[@michaelbrinks8089]

Iv'e had several doctors argue with me & claim that Adderall Aka amphetamine isn't addictive. (That's like saying cocaine isn't addictive) & that Tramadol aka combination of weak/mild synthetic opiate & SSRI type antidepressant combined in one pill doesn't cause any withdrawal if you suddenly stop taking it after long term use... Iv'e met hundreds of doctors who are incredibly inept and/or with no common sense who have no business being doctors. They must have cheated their way through med school or forgot basic medical knowledge. Another example, several claimed that long term exposure to various paints/solvents, metals, welding fumes wouldn't cause any permanent health issues & once they left a persons systems. The person would no longer have any symptoms/feel sick.

[@literalantifaterrorist4673]

yeah, especially since some tests are at the nanogram level.

[@josepena7845]

So what you are saying is that big corporations, mainstream media, medical experts and power politicians were wrong? That's a little bit hard to believe.

[@literalantifaterrorist4673]

@@josepena7845 what do half of those have to do with this?

[@josepena7845]

@@literalantifaterrorist4673 Sarcasm

[@AlexeiRamotar]

Theranos just shows that a company's valuation is not based in fact but in opinion

[@xponen]

yea, a 9 Billion USD evaluation yet made only 1 product that barely work

[@KhemistryIBMOR]

So true

[@michaelmoorrees3585]

Remember the dot-com boom (and bust) !? Billions invested into unicorn farts !

[@laturista1000]

exactly and therein lies the problem with the whole Stock Market. Assets today around the world are over inflated! And sometimes corporations use complex ways to devalue their assets and holdings for tax breaks, so it is all very fraudulent the world of company valuations. Not based on any real data, numbers, earnings, but often times plain SPECULATION! hope the SEC gives her a good smack down. www.sec.gov/news/press-release/2018-41

[@marcbee1234]

9 billion valuation of BS !!!

[@kazj1728]

I remember asking my mom, a PhD biochemist and 40 year diagnostic pathology executive, if it was possible to run all these tests on a single drop of blood. My mom doesn’t curse, but she responded “No…ducking…way.” 🦆

[@randomworld4662]

it's possible but in the future! every disease can be detected in your blood the problem is currently we don't have advance technology that can detect all disease in drop of blood !

[@kazj1728]

@@randomworld4662 It’s not really the technology, it’s simple statistics: bigger sample = more accuracy & smaller sample = less accuracy. Think about it: if you wanted to determine the political views of a country’s citizens, would you feel comfortable with polling 3 people or 5000 people? Even if you had sophisticated polling questions and algorithms to extract maximum value from the data from 3 people, you’re going to get a faaar more accurate perspective from 5000 people. Same exact statistics concept applies to blood analysis: things like cancer/cholesterol/metabolites show themselves better in a 40ml sample than a single 1ml drop. The 1ml drop has its uses for specific tests like blood sugar, but for a full analysis of a range of pathologies you need a reasonably sized sample to get accurate results.

[@kylegonewild]

@@kazj1728 You're overthinking it. Forget accuracy, a plethora of tests essentially consume the sample to retrieve results. How do you adequately aliquot a single drop of blood in order to run various tests that require things like blood fractionation? You can't lol.

[@PhilUKNet]

"If you repeat a lie enough times, people start to believe it." This strategy is still working highly effectively in 2020.

[@OMGAnotherday]

Exactly!

[@ninnikins4768]

Yep

[@Creukelen]

It’s. “If you repeat a lie enough times you start to believe it.”

[@PhilUKNet]

@@Creukelen 22:10 Listen to the quote in the video, then send the maker of the video a message telling them they got it wrong.

[@mariahendrickson1443]

Very true!!

[@levi-dh9fu]

Honestly this is fascinating how someone can become a mega successful billionaire with nothing but the act of talking and manipulation

[@gl2461]

Con artist

[@asxmf933]

Step 1: be a sociopath and have no capacity to feel fear or remorse. Steve Jobs is what would have happened if Elizabeth Holmes was actually smart and had the drive to actually make a good product, which, despite all Steve's faults, he definitely had.

[@Mountshasta]

Exactly, this is the most shocking fact!!

[@b.kmstansen3534]

Billionaire on paper with financials hidden. No liquidity or ability to get liquidity of the bulk of that billionaire status. When it came crashing, her net worth went to 0.

[@eugeniuswilliams5457]

But she was a pertty young wealthy blond in a society entranced by youth and beauty and money. How could she not succeed, for a time at least, in such a materialistic culture?

[@sebastiaomendonca1477]

Theranos sounds like the name of an evil fictional corporation from a superhero movie and Elizabeth Holmes looks exactly like what you'd expect from the CEO with those black turtlenecks

[@TheWorkshop298]

Everything about this sounds like it is taken from a video game bruh.

[@forickgrimaldus8301]

Oh its the Purple Giant man

[@immortalsun]

She dressed like Steve Jobs.

[@borisstoyanov3488]

She's female Norman Osborn.

[@asmagamer728]

She probably runs Umbrella Corporation

[@DaveC2729]

I would've walked out the minute the boss said "You should leave." I did that with one previous employer. For some reason, he thought I wouldn't do that when he said it. "But that's not what I meant!" -him "But it's what you said." -me. I don't feel obligated to try to read people's minds. If you say something other than what you mean, you can eat the consequences and I won't feel the least bit sorry for you.

[@paulab2242]

THANK YOU for outlining upfront how the whole concept was a physical impossibility. As someone with a background in medicine and biochemistry, it is infuriating seeing all the interviews on most docs by investors who claimed they had no way of knowing it was a farce. The pre med undergrads in the lab where I worked knew it was nonsense, but VCs making millions somehow couldn't figure it out?

[@Kimberlygunn]

They didn’t want to figure it out. Maybe she was involved with some of the investors intimately like Sunny.

[@Skank_and_Gutterboy]

@@Kimberlygunn A woman isn't going to get Bill Clinton's support with giving Bill a little sumthin'-sumthin'. I'm sure she had serviced a good number of these old guys. There's no way Mad Dog Mattis and George Schultz would've been that devoted to her unless they were getting their knobs polished. Schultz chose her over his grandson and a good number of his family members, I sure lost a lot of respect for that guy in this whole thing. Sunny Balwani is a disgusting little troll and she was doing him for company startup money, so she clearly is capable of it.

[@frostykittens]

VCs probably only know at most high school level bio, so not surprised they wouldn’t know, but they should know to ask for experts

[@Braamsery1992]

The story of Ian Gibbons is one of the saddest you can imagine for multiple reasons: a) suicide b) fearing unemployment c) fearing umemplyment as a 67yr old. Why did that happen? He shouldve been retired, not commiting suicide!

[@karabojackson2852]

Honestly though #JusticeForIan 😭😭😭. I don’t understand why she isn’t being charged for his death,she drove that man to suicide.

[@Uncle_Fred]

It's a strange world where a finacially successful 67 year old man feels like a failure if he can't find a job. We've created a bizzare dystopia.

[@jeffreysian-salas1689]

@@Uncle_Fred I think it may have been more on the NDA, if he talked they would sue him for everything and win, or he doesn't talk and when the truth comes out he's effectively given a life sentence due to him being 67. He had no good choice there, damned if he did or didn't

[@oliveryt7168]

@@Uncle_Fred He was 67... Dont you retire at that age in the USA???

[@justinwyatt8]

Did he know how brilliant he was and his value as a scientist?

[@Ana_DFM]

As somebody who worked in the lab field, when I first heard of this story I was livid. I couldn't understand how people believed her! Nobody checked anything! Her idea was ridiculous and people where like "here, take our money" FFS

[@gmac1384]

It shows alot about humans...bunch of followers. These rich folks all had "Fomo" (fear of missing out) and since she comes from wealth they automatically opened doors for her.

[@Jimminityjabooboo]

The people who believed the lie were not medical professionals. They were everyday people. Women and feminized men wanted her to be the next Steve Jobs because “equality”, and “women have the special sauce and are special mkay”, so we ALL propped her up. A large part of her success was us wanting to believe and wanting a woman to be successful. Even if that meant believing a scam and lie as monstrous as what happened with Theranos. Feminism needed Elizabeth Holmes to be the next Steve jobs, and the only way they could accomplish this was by scamming you out of $600 million dollars with lies and deceit. Think about that. It’s all about us “feeling good”, and less about what makes sense and works or doesn’t actually work/ what is real.

[@jonathanathor117]

Man some of these business people and investors, brokers and entrepreneur with the wolf street or silicon vaalley aesthetic really feel like Saturday morning cartoon villains.

[@GabrielAKAFinn]

It gives me a good laugh when I think of all the greedy cunts losing 9 billion on a promise. Not like it matters in the long run, but I bet they wake up with night terrors when they remember it.

[@gailwaters814]

She cculd have been AOC 1.0. No way she could have been fired for lethal incompetence!!! The world dodged a bullet!

[@ahmadfarrall2097]

I recently retired from working in a large hospital in its core laboratory. Her idea from the get go was absurd. The amount of scrutiny and validation by outside bodies is immense. Some of those tests she is suggesting takes days and need to be validated. Yes point of care testing is getting better but no where near what she is promoting. Why someone has not come forward to say so boggles me. Only in America

[@elin111]

All these tech startups are based on spewing buzzwords that sound smart to the general audience that doesn't understand what they're talking about meanwhile the people with actual experience will constantly be calling them frauds but no one listens.

[@soareverix]

The quality of this video is off the charts. Instant subscribe.

[@ubervaag7150]

Indeed. It's rare that something so informative can be this entertaining.

[@SuperSiward]

Agree.

[@framegrace1]

Note for the future, never believe non-blinking people.

[@wes3793]

There's an interview with Jeff Bezos back in the late 90's with a reporter and I swear he never looks away from the interviewer for the entire interview and hardly blinks lol

[@alams3860]

I saw this comment before the video started, now I cant stop noticing that there no blinking eyes in this video... already at 2 minutes...

[@MarcCastellsBallesta]

My "tear glands" have always underperformed. Can I pass the trust test? :-)

[@uunimestari6989]

lot of funding were spent on eye drops

[@MarshasJourney]

Lol!

[@alcd6333]

The whole company was predicated on nothing but lies. I interviewed with them for a senior R&D position. It was very peculiar: they touted their technology, but didn't describe how it works at all. When they asked if I had any questions, one thing I asked is what a typical workday is like. Again, they were very ambiguous: "We work very hard and produce results!" Well it's Silicon Valley: everyone does that! Anyway, I did not get the job - Thank God! I'd be blacklisted forever!

[@emintey]

She had what she thought was a visionary idea, that is to democratize diagnostic testing with small sample size, easily available testing sites, low cost and a wide menu of tests. The only problem was that Theranos didnt have to technology to accomplish that. She exploited a loophole in the regulatory regime which allowed her to operate w/o scrutiny which all other manufacturers of diagnostic instrumentation and laboratory service providers have to undergo and that was hubris in the extreme. On the plus side Theranos was only operating in parts of California and Arizona, no one lost their lives due to inaccuracies as a suspect result will tend to stand out and confirmatory tests are common. Theranos was a renegade and the scam was going to be revealed at some point, it has led to stricter standards and has highlighted again the need for regulatory bodies protect the public from the unscrupulous, they must actually be able to do what they say they can do and prove it before reaching the market. I don't think Holmes set out harm and defraud the public and investors but she was in way over her head driven by ego and self delusion. She has legal liability here and should pay the consequences.

[@nsp6590]

@Up-a-Creek Except climate change is neither a lie nor speculation. It's an observed phenomenon which is exactly what led to experts warning people of it. Many things affect climate change including but not limited to volcano eruptions, cyclones and storms and the earth's orbit. But I am assuming you are talking about *man-made* climate change. Well that's not a lie either. It's also an observed phenomenon caused primarily by greenhouse gas emissions. That is the reason why emissions regulations for common vehicles are becoming stricter and stricter for instance. And in case you are wondering why the climate is oftentimes stable in densely populated areas, well, because of weather conditions, pollution caused by emissions is not localised.

[@justenough730]

Somebody was watching out for you

[@jontomus7]

Please, up a creek, this piece is not about how science and speculation are inherently erroneous especially when it comes to climate change. It is actually about how science and the burden of proof was able to root out the fraudulent corporation. CO2 has a definite affect on our atmosphere. CO2 omissions both natural and man-made contribute to this effect. Fraudulent medical products are explicitly used to reap profits without any accountability for a person‘s well-being. Imagine... the next argument will be that there’s too much government oversight in medical instrumentation and implementation.

[@trulahn]

@Up-a-Creek Climate change was predicted 40+ years ago by one of the petroleum company scientists while investigation harmful effect of lead in the environment. I think either Shell or Chevron's internal memo even mentioned climate change in the 70s. They just made a business decision to smear it and half the country is gullible enough to believe their smear campaign instead of the thousands of independent researches done by different countries around the world showing the same results.

[@medman7527]

This is one of my fav cold fusion vids. I've watched it dozens of times throughout the years. Throughly entertaining. Incredible story.

[@miguelrodriguez-pineroriva6713]

Love how they sell they're self built billionaires when they come from wealthy families and with contacts

[@weirdisspeltweird]

100%, same with musk

[@kennethstortziii8132]

@@weirdisspeltweird haha

[@rh_BOSS]

There's no glamour in telling it how it is in your ghostwritten autobiography. That your mommy or daddy made a couple phone calls, called in a few favours and you were set for life. Whereas an average Joe would have to work for a decade to just get the connections to set up a meeting with the same people.

[@Ozymandias1]

Well there are some billionaires who grew up in poverty such as Oprah and Larry Ellison.

[@mobiusloop339]

Not necessarily true. It still takes incredible effort to be a billionaire from a millionaire. The rough equivalent would be if you went from earning poverty wages to making a six figure salary per year. Maybe even more difficult.

[@DavidFox60]

Much respect for Tyler, that guy fought for the right thing. An example of ethical courage!

[@lefterisfred]

Also to the Wall Street Journal owner, who had faith in his employes and did not kill the story.

[@roshpinna6708]

@@lefterisfred despite himself putting in that scam the largest investment 140millions us$

[@juanitajoeseph2016]

@@lefterisfred IKR!

[@queen_ofall2360]

My God really, even his grandfather push him away, and still he went ahead, koodos!

[@asxmf933]

He was brave no doubt. But also, he was in a privileged position as the grandson of one of the board directors. He could afford to resign, to weather the threats of lawsuits. I bet he also hated seeing his grandfather being manipulated so clearly.

[@crashburn3292]

I went to college and got a degree in graphic design, therefore I'm going to invent a more modern way to perform brain surgery....

[@eddyram4932]

With your knowledge of graphic design, make sure you make a cool video with some hip music. Showcase some amazing CGI images with a soft spoken voice, and sharp cuts to scenes of people smiling by your images. Some stock lab work, and fake doctors looking at MRI photos. Do this and you could get millions in Indiegogo😂

[@Ghost19_]

Gotta invest to you now, you know, the truth could come off later~

[@missmoxie9188]

You’ll probably know more about what you were doing then Elizabeth Holmes did

[@rainman5438]

I'm gonna drop the out of college, and create something everyone's gonna need and use.. thinking about calling it MacroSoft or Fakebookz...

[@valeriucore4613]

What is her main problem? Can anyone answer. Is she incompetent, is she a silly liar, is she greedy, is she a careless spender, is she ignorant to others, is she afraid of spent money and no result at the beginning.

[@tjardnadebusch7304]

Best Theranos report I have seen so far. Focus on the technical issues, why it had to fail.

[@steverogers7601]

She became a billionaire without actually selling anything lmao Here’s a tip: do your research, fact finding, and due diligence before you invest or buy anything.

[@blister6809]

Some of these guys just have so much money to throw around they don't even care

[@SwagMcSwiggle]

Not quite. She did sell something, it just didn't exist. The lesson is here is that you get rich on promises.

[@CompagnonDeMisere25]

"She became a billionaire without actually selling anything lmao" Welcome to the 21st century capitalism.

[@giedrius2149]

@@SwagMcSwiggle I pretty sure she ended up selling prototypes but the accuracy was horrible af

[@omnimenge]

If you're investing millions of dollars in a company, you might as well hire some experts to dissect, analyze and question their investment proposal.

[@anonymous1031]

Something about her facial expressions and overall aura screams creepy. Like the way she talks, no blinking eye contact and weird smile that doesn't reach her eye.

[@lexivee9571]

"From a young age Elizabeth knew what she wanted in life, to be a billionaire." Lol gotta love that greed

[@morganzoeclanthem2847]

Nothing wrong with greed being a motivation. Many good things are being done with that motivation. It was the fraud that was not good dude.

[@covidhoax7646]

I can’t think of a single example of somebody becoming a billionaire by wanting to become one. Wealth comes as a byproduct of doing something else that delivers great value to society.

[@JeronimusJack]

billionaire is not a profession like firefighter or policewoman etc. it's a financial status, and you can't study billionaire. i thought it was a joke. nothing greedy if a child says it also.

[@ryans6280]

No matter how rich anyone could ever be you still look at the toilet paper after you wipe

[@covidhoax7646]

@@localweeb2924 That’s a movie.

[@jonathanpeterson1984]

Even if the machine could only run 5 to 10 tests accurately it would have been a great asset to the medical care community. She just shot WAY too high and had the wrong people in her corner.

[@Rurike]

They didnt even manage that so

[@generalmarkmilleyisbenedic8895]

Wrong take simpleton

[@dntneedchenle]

She was rotten herself. Her only enabler was her boyfriend sunny who was still a better person than her. Her initial team was very hesitant about her wrongdoings but were scared of her and they eventually quit.

[@nkosanam1583]

How does a company so big run for a couple of years without a CFO? What board accepts that? Too many governance loopholes it sounds like a fairy tale. It shouldn't have come this far if the right questions were asked, especially by the board and the investors.

[@beckydoesit9331]

Well, CFOs rarely have the vision to bring compact medical testing machines to the market. Look at Siemens... They have a monstrous blood testing machine that costs just under $25,000! Why so much? Because CFOs in the medical field bully their agenda into clients who pay outrageous sums of money, which is what they are tasked with doing. Developing a machine for under half that price was what Elizabeth was trying to achieve, but CFOs can only see dollar signs and what the market will bear. Walgreens, CVS and other pharmacies wanted a machine for each of their stores for only $5,000 a piece, but each CFO that Theranos had tried milking more and more money from them, thus making the machine obsolete, as the entire point was to cut costs. Elizabeth had a bold vision and was eventually taken down by losers who couldn't bring her dream to fruition.

[@thomashale2096]

She had deep connections. Her family knew some high ups in the military, the government, and I think the USDA. That, and her bewitching silver tongue.

[@havcola6983]

Board members and investors can be gullible idiots too. Being rich doesn't _actually_ require skills, intelligence or aptitude, that's just a lie people perpetuate to convince themselves or others that the system we live in isn't broken and unfair. Those traits might be helpful, but for every capable rich person there's two dumbasses who fell ass backwards into wealth through nepotism, blind chance or fraud.

[@Giovannisoriano99]

becky doesit lol she was a fraud with a product that was shit

[@weltonvillegal6258]

And with that much of a “worth”? Huge Red Flag whipping in Hurricane Force winds.

[@fhurley8447]

She has the eyes of an abusive mother and the voice of buffalo bill. ‘Would you invest in me? I’d invest in me.’

[@unanimous.verdict]

that hits the soft spot

[@lamonochromatique]

This made me laugh far too much. 😂

[@EekZombies]

Laughing my ass off currently.. ;D

[@jmitterii2]

Best comment of the week award!

[@corvus1970]

Just put the blood in the FUCKING MINILAB!

[@willn8664]

So basically the Fyre Festival of the medical field.

[@dereenaldoambun9158]

Lol

[@devdixit2440]

Yes, except Fyre Festival was virtually harmless, and is now a meme. While Holmes and her associates committed hundreds of millions of dollars of fraud, fooled the entire nation, including the president and vice president, and risked the lives of over a thousand cancer patients. The founder of Fyre festival was merely idiotic, Elizabeth Holmes was full on psychotic.

[@WallebyDamned]

@@devdixit2440 Fyre Festival was definitely not harmless. All of those people on the island did so much work and most get paid for all of it. Small business owners and onsite workers suffered.

[@devdixit2440]

@@WallebyDamned That is true, but it did not have near the negative impact that Theranos did. No lives were at significant risk at Fyre Festival, on an individual basis, most people had played about $1250 for the trip, no where close to what the media claimed. And so there was no significant amount of people in financial ruin as a result of Fyre Festival. While in Theranos investors and shareholders lost millions. In general, it can be said, malpractice in the medical industry can be far more dangerous than in the tourism industry. I dont think ruining a few hundred peoples holidays is comparable to risking the lives of cancer patients, and giving misdiagnoses to ill patients. The scope of damage was also greater in Theranos, as it could lead to diagnostic failures at a huge level. But yes, I would now agree, Fyre festival was not 'virtually harmless', but certainly not as harmful as Theranos.

[@LeSourisBleu]

LMA

[@ajsctech8249]

The annoying thing is that the idea of making multiple tests from a small amount of blood is essentially a good and noble idea. They didnt need to make a machine that did 250 tests, but they could have scale back the ambition to a machine that did say 30 or 50 tests as that would still have been an improvement. And also why not make system that could say take 5 to 10 blood drops as that is still better than a needle blood draw. Im sure someone responsible could have a go a building this Theranos concept but starting on a smaller scale. Dont get why they went for 200 tests. She could have still built produce. Mad narcicist and in the end pyschopathic personality to release a product that misdiagnosed patient conditions. She deserves her senttence

[@unphase.]

She sounds like a teenage boy trying to impress his crush

[@MrApoorvaSingh753]

Only he succeed to deceive her for long until his ploy has stopped working.

[@tfh5575]

Screaming

[@assassinaria]

Her voice is deeper than a male teenage KZbinr. That is how much soy we consume on a daily basis. We need to be more aware of these things!

[@mlgpro2241]

@@assassinariaThe soy thing is a myth though

[@danielhandika8767]

@@mlgpro2241 agreed, Asian eat tofu, soy milk, soy sauce and many other soy products.