Silicon Valley Scammers - Theranos

$10 Billion Dollar BAMBOOZLE, Elizabeth Holmes is the founder of Theranos, a fraudulent "blood-testing company".
*the bamboozle is the valuation, how much exactly she walked away with is unclear. She is infamous for using a fake voice and modeling herself after Steve Jobs.
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This video is an opinion and in no way should be construed as statements of fact. Scams, bad business opportunities, and fake gurus are subjective terms that mean different things to different people. I think someone who promises $100K/month for an upfront fee of $2K is a scam. Others would call it a Napolean Hill pitch.

[@KingDayDayDay00]

Elizabeth Holmes sounds like when a teenage boy answers the telephone

[@steari]

Lol ...or a teenage girl pretending to be a teenage boy on the phone.

[@96ej]

"Cough cough Timmy's sick and won't be in today"

[@sirawesomenessi1796]

Mark Zuckerberg crossed with Chills

[@larrycoleman9513]

she is cute though.

[@VampirusX]

@@96ej A classic Timmy 👌

[@cccmmm1234]

The cadence serves two purposes: * It increases anticipation. * She could only say a few words at a time while keeping the voice going.

[@Nebulaoblivion]

also, you don't have to write as long of a speech. Its like if you have a two page essay due, and you write a page, but increase the spaces between the words to stretch it into two pages.

[@marhawkman303]

also speaking slowly without making it seem like you're doing it to annoy people lets you manage your speech and more easily choose what to say.

[@patricklarsen8078]

It's easier to fake and lie when you are not yourself. It's a role she enters

[@mamasuki]

My throat hurts just listening to her fake-awful voice

[@snaaaake59]

It increases *annoyance*

[@cherry-ks9yb]

The worst part is the thousands of patients that had their blood tested and were given faulty, unreliable results

[@Heather87899]

Surely the doctors of these ppl didn't put faith in a machine not yet developed

[@amarissimus29]

No, they got results. From regular everyday analysis. They were just told that it was magic. Like the TV psychic who knows everything about a stranger by ESP. Or the fact that his goons swiped her purse.

[@zachgoldwater957]

that didnt happen. they did tests using functional machines that they hid from the public. please dont make things up.

[@itsd0nk]

@@Heather87899 people lost their lives from this scam

[@kenw2225]

How and or why

[@tedchou12]

"Faking it until you are faking it, and that's called fraud." --coffeezilla This quote is going down history.

[@T..C..M]

"Going down on history" the highest rated show History channel has ever made. Cleopatra's oral techniques, Kennedy & Monroe, Clinton & Lewinsky.

[@dawnjohnson9726]

It should be "faking it, until you are fraudulent" makes more sense.

[@notdemomantf2294]

ok but OP said "going down history" And the first reply is "going down on history" And I didn't notice both are wrong

[@chrisbarker2296]

like his 10m studio

[@harryyharman5469]

@@notdemomantf2294going down on history is a bj joke

[@basspalace2920]

Lmao “don’t trust a chemical engineer” joke went over the heads of people that don’t know Coffee is a chemical engineer

[@jaysantos11]

He didn’t seem to be joking tho

[@dongster529]

I think the inside joke is closer to there are many power hungry politicians that had a background in chemistry - Margaret Thatcher, Angela Merkel, the Current Pope, CCP's Xi "the Pooh" Jin Ping are examples.

[@hxyzazolchak]

@@dongster529 angela merkel is pretty chill though. I know she is not perfect

[@ryei6]

@@dongster529 Why is that? Seems strange chemical engineering or chemistry would relate to politics, but would like to know what I’m missing haha.

[@princejoseph8280]

@@jaysantos11 maybe he was talking about his crazy collegemates lol 😂

[@BrandonG1019]

As a 19 year old myself, I can confirm that 19 year old dropouts will definitely not save or revolutionize our society lol

[@youparejo]

Why not ? What you begin at 19 yo will show results at 30 yo maybe. Dont under estimate yourself

[@operator8014]

You won't but some of the smart ones might.

[@BrandonG1019]

@@operator8014 I mean as a group in general. There will always be a select few. But not many young 18-20 somethings will not revolutionize anything actually worth a damn.

[@BrandonG1019]

@@youparejo I'm talking about society at large. Not on the personal level

[@bowserbrowser6559]

Fr fr thats lit af no cap

[@KingOfMadCows]

Elizabeth Holmes wasn't in it alone, she had a lot of powerful people on her board. A lot of people were afraid to speak out against Theranos because David Boies, who runs Boies Schiller Flexner LLP, a very powerful law firm, was on the board of directors. Whistleblowers were harassed and threatened by Boies Schiller Flexner LLP with lawsuits.

[@dumbasses_R_us]

Yeah, the way she filled her board with powerful old white guys was kinda genius tbh. Like who's going to question them?

[@kenrose2523]

They also utilized the gender card too because obviously if you accuse any young female teenager of any suspicious activity you must be "sexist".

[@universeofopulence]

@@dumbasses_R_us ...it wasn't completely her idea though, there was her boyfriend 45yrs old sunny balwani a PA kis tani national who was the brain behind the running of the company and choosing the board members and who is also in hot water with her..

[@Naptosis]

@@universeofopulence Why did you write 'Pakistani' like that?

[@universeofopulence]

@@Naptosis ... bcos my comments get deleted if I typed it fully, so to fool the algorithm, it had to be broken up ..

[@MeetDaveG]

She could have named the machine "Jobs", which would've been ironic, since no one at Theranos has one now.

[@avocadolfhirsehiedler742]

Plus she became slightly wet everytime someone brought up Steve Jobs.

[@Anti_everything_and_everyone]

🤭

[@brendanrandle]

Jobs was best at marketing hardly the brains behind the operation

[@MeetDaveG]

@@brendanrandle I agree with you on this.

[@omphileneo]

Haha.

[@olianims]

As a teenager it's actually pretty refreshing to hear you say that 19 year olds aren't gonna save the world. Like shit, I don't want that responsibility. I'm dumb as shit and then there's people like her who get a Ted talk and a billion dollar company

[@indigochild2.098]

ahaha whoever you are, salute to you kid, ull do just fine!

[@michaelqiu9722]

Nobody expected you to save the world. Get over yourself.

[@joshyoung1440]

...literally everybody age 19 and up has been a 19 year old. 19 year olds (and practically every other age) ARE in fact the ones that change the world, just not always when they're 19. When people say that, they're trying to encourage. Piece of advice from a 28 year old- contextualizing things in the most helpful way is a large focus of my inner work on my maturity right now. Sounds like it could help you too.

[@joshyoung1440]

I'm also confused by that last sentence... you're saying how dumb and irresponsible you are, but then you're... I can't tell, are you complaining that she gets a Ted talk? That would make the most sense but it really doesn't make sense with your first part cause it's like well you said you didn't wanna do anything... she went and did something. Not the right something, but the point is you can't fight something with nothing. If you want the world not to be run by charlatans like her, you have to actually replace her.

[@purpleYamask]

19 year olds will save the world. In 10-30 years when they know how. Don't worry too much

[@me0101001000]

My dad and I are both in academia for chemical engineering. When he saw this, he immediately called bullshit. First of all, a dropout making breakthroughs is not unheard of in fields like computer science, but in biochemistry, you absolutely need the formal training. And Theranos doomed itself from the day it marketed towards big names rather than experts. If you're going to make waves in science and engineering, you first need to survive the scrutiny of the experts.

[@zeropolicy7456]

Like it or not, your science isn't worth anything unless it's extensively peer reviewed. No one will even bother reviewing it, unless you have the basics of credentials, and that includes being published during your journey towards earning your degrees. You need a tangible paper history, or the science community doesn't buy your BS. Lol.

[@me0101001000]

@@zeropolicy7456 that's exactly what I said. You have to convince the experts of the field before you can convince anyone else..otherwise it's almost definitely a fake.

[@DevDev-dm3st]

The reason computer science gets away with it is because you can actually see if the technology actually works quite easily, with no loss of life, work or money if it fails. Espicially if it's software only. Every other science may cost those.

[@snuffysam]

@@DevDev-dm3st Exactly, a lot of these “revolutions” are like, it’s a good idea with no evidence of it working in practice. But when you’re coding software, the gap between “idea” and “practice” is much smaller, so you better have it working in practice lol

[@small_joys2022]

True. Also a chemical engineer cannot have the required minimum knowledge in biology and genetics or anything related to the human body to come up with this technology.

[@thebipolarpsychonaut4984]

Nikola legitimately towed their semi truck and trailer to the top of a big hill and let it roll down and once it got to flat ground they took footage of it "driving" as if it was actually doing so. It's a crazy story how they duped GM.

[@karaoconnoraliasraidra]

There was literally a segment about like that on Candid Camera (the original hidden camera prank show which has new versions from time to time). They went to a hill, removed the engine from a car, and had a driver put the car in neutral, coast into a gas station/repair shop, park, and tell a worker there was an issue with the car. The worker would pop the hood, notice the lack of engine, and become very confused how the driver could have been driving. I didn’t expect to see a Candid Camera-style trick used to dupe businessmen, but here we are. 🚚🗻

[@lifeasrini]

Off topic and a year later but your username is iconic and I'm jealous 👏👏🤣🤣 also, that story is WILD I hadn't heard that before ... 😳

[@thebipolarpsychonaut4984]

@@lifeasrini My username?

[@lifeasrini]

@@thebipolarpsychonaut4984 I'm bipolar myself and thought it was a nice touch is all 👍✌️

[@thenerfherder9586]

I like how Nikola didn’t even have the common courtesy to not name their company after the same guy as Tesla

[@Dekedence]

The annoying thing about Theranos was that a lot of legit companies lost out to funding because of her grift. Elements of the Theranos vision - essentially test miniaturisation, turn-around reduction and volume reduction - are being worked on. They're not aiming to have a one button press, all-in-one machine the size of an office printer, but there are companies picking away that these improvements. And they didn't get the funding because, when approached, these hedge funds were like "oh, but Thernos are doing that ... they're working with Walmart and the US Military ... why would we go with you?". So healthcare has literally lost out on this because of the grift.

[@e4unow421]

You could have just called this Sili-con Valley or Silly Con Valley.

[@blakasmurf]

I agree this is even better than my suggested Scammer Valley! Silly-CON Valley wins!

[@trulyAmatulHaqq]

Silly Con Valley slaps as a series title

[@ShwamiTalks]

Silicon-artists

[@blakasmurf]

@@ShwamiTalks Silly-CON-artists 😁

[@sokoyaadedolapo5321]

I think silly con valley is a better idea

[@Dagrizzb]

Her voice drop is like something out of a horror film. Where the next door neighbor who has been super pleasant and flirty with you, invites you over to stay the night because your house is flooded. While going to the kitchen to get some beers, she's talking to you from the threshold of the dining room. As she speaks to you about how unfortunate it was that your upper restrooms pipe burst, you realize, you never told her about which room the flood originated from. She then transitions her voice to a low baritone. You turn around in an "aha!" moment. But, you turn around into the kitchen knife she has at level with your midsection. Now, you slunk against the fridge to the floor. Bleeding out onto the tile. Looking into lifeless eyes. The last THING you'll ever see.

[@ottoweininger8156]

And then she tests your blood on her machine that doesn't work

[@supertrendymoneymaker0722]

Great story for a novel dude

[@MarksTournaments]

@@ottoweininger8156 dead

[@enlightenedanthony6661]

🤣🤣🤣

[@msb1704]

bro

[@tom.in.barcelona]

You hit the nail on the head regarding the whole "college dropout wunderkind entrepreneur" narrative. These VC firms deserve the losses they got - these are the same morons who invested in FTX, having been impressed by the CEO playing video games while on an investor call. These dudes are so disconnected from reality, it's hilarious.

[@None-lx8kj]

It’s an accurate observation to a degree, but it’s also oblivious and completely misses the point. You don’t need to be right every time. You just need to be on board early when it happens the next time. Who cares if you bet $1 million 49 times and lose each one if the 50th time that $1 million turns into $500 million? Are you really the dumb one in that scenario?

[@ingold1470]

@@None-lx8kj Your miss rate increases when con-artists become aware of your criteria

[@Zork876]

There’s a great book titled “Bad Blood” that gets into depth about this. It got up to the point that Walgreens and pFizer had deals with them. The team when showing the tech to investors would run it with prerecorded data that made it look like it was generated in real time. It’s a crazy story I’d highly recommend people look more into, a lot of lessons to be learned for sure.

[@jedijazzy6643]

Yes! There’s also a HBO documentary based on the book. Insane that one of the whistleblowers was the son of one of the investors she fooled. He believed HER more than his son

[@Thor-Orion]

They also had engineers switch the samples into the traditional machines after the potential investors were taken away from the room.

[@DumbledoreMcCracken]

Coffee expects the scammers, who have lots of money, are smart enough to spot other scammers and save themselves from being scammed.

[@duckmeat4674]

More reason to distrust Pfizer

[@livewellwitheds6885]

@@duckmeat4674 but not Walgreens. interesting. maybe u are just a scummy antivaxer?

[@aaronshelton4604]

I remember seeing her speak about “the New blood test “ before the scandal broke. I worked as a nurse and told my husband that that can’t be done! You need more blood to do a test. I don’t know why more doctors didn’t speak out after she did tedmed.

[@elisabethandersen1102]

It's breaking my brain how they think they're going to centrifuge a single drop of blood.

[@dubstepXpower]

Or biologists there's no way you can test all that without massive equipment.

[@nolanhardy3320]

They did. But investors didn't believe them because there's an obvious conflict of interest.

[@BdR76]

It shows the sheer arrogance of Silicon Valley too. I mean if you believed Theranos' story you had to assume that all the lab engineers in the entire world had overlooked this one genius idea that could improve their work, not just a little but by several orders of magnitude, and it took a bright young Silicon Valley entrepreneur to show those mere mortals the way. 🤮 peeuke

[@nthgth]

@@BdR76 that's the part that I feel. I don't know much about blood testing, but surely SOMEone who does would've thought of that already if it were feasible.

[@DStecks]

Literally the second I first heard her voice I thought "Okay no, that is not her actual voice, that sounds like a child pretending to be an adult while making a prank call". Some women do just naturally have deeper voices than you'd expect, but Holmes talks like a bad impression of herself. The only way I can imagine it fooling anyone is by people thinking "there's no way anybody would be unhinged enough to do a fake voice literally all the time".

[@dawnjohnson9726]

🤣🤦‍♀️. .. except she WAS.. that's what's so unbelievable about all this, she was a totally unhinged sociopath! Bwhaha "Noone is unhinged enough to fake a voice like this ALL the time" 🤣🤣 how exhausting right?

[@ianmangham4570]

Real 💯👍

[@absolfan1184]

So accurate. I feel like it must be one of those things where everyone is thinking about how fake her voice sounds but it's like... "No one else is saying anything, so I must be wrong! I'm not gonna say anything and get in trouble."

[@tacobanana6538]

I mean it’s not exactly uncommon nor common when someone has an unnatural voice. Whether it be by some type of disease or illness, there’s people out there that are just….. weirdly unnaturally natural. One example is the “90 year old chain smoker aunt who is way too out there in public or to their nephews or nieces.”

[@colorblockpoprocks6973]

which, funnily enough, is also the train of thought that resulted in her securing investors

[@yea3603]

Coffee does this mean at 19 I can just not finish my bachelors and become rich by pausing every word during a speech

[@CdotPoppy]

If

[@CdotPoppy]

You

[@CdotPoppy]

Want

[@CdotPoppy]

To

[@CdotPoppy]

.

[@yoyob44]

Fun fact: The average age of a successful startup founder is 45

[@demstaincanada]

The average age of a millionaire is 65

[@Krasses]

@@demstaincanada Wait that's after you cash out 401k

[@AMSUDZ]

@@demstaincanada its actually 46

[@MeetJarred]

@@Krasses just buy pokemon cards and become rich!!! Tendies and Rocket Ships, Hahaha!

[@suyashwaghmare3911]

i got 16 year old millionaires in my feeds

[@alliu6562]

Yknow, I just realized why the name “theranos” is so funny to me. It’s one ER away from Thanos.

[@-Will.]

The cadence caused by her forcing her voice to it's lowest & having to pause in-between to breathe in more air while looking composed 😂 She's literally suffocating herself just to speak lower

[@JeanMarceaux]

That explains why she sounds like she's on the verge of tears all the time. Seriously, there are easier ways to make your voice sound deeper, like heavy smoking or tracheal trauma.

[@blakksheep736]

@@JeanMarceaux 😆

[@noahkarpinski1824]

@han thedepressedgerman that's the cowards way out

[@jt8251]

I don't think she was intentionally lowering her voice. I'm willing to bet is was a side-effect of adderall. A lot of people who use it claim their voice is altered.

[@natec599]

@@JeanMarceaux I’m sure there are some investors that would like to help her with that.

[@jeffshackleford3152]

As a Chemical Engineer I can confirm that they are skeevy and not to be trusted.

[@GuyThompsonFWTX]

Modern day alchemists re-inventing snake oil.

[@me0101001000]

I'm also in chemical engineering, and I agree!

[@TarekPenagosPiano]

As a chemical engineer I couldn't disagree less with you

[@jeffshackleford3152]

@@TarekPenagosPiano Are you a front row guy?

[@spenserhickssh]

The one at my job at a chemical plant is definite not trustworthy

[@Ckom-Tunes]

You know who’s truly worth ten billion dollars? That 60 year old nurse who manages to thread that IV on the first try every time!

[@michaelqiu9722]

no.

[@Ckom-Tunes]

@@michaelqiu9722 You’ve obviously never been sick. Just give it time…

[@michaelqiu9722]

@@Ckom-Tunes not worth 10 billion dollars.

[@Ckom-Tunes]

@@michaelqiu9722 You don’t know the nurses I do!

[@Ckom-Tunes]

@@michaelqiu9722 The point is a no -talent grifter like Holmes can manage to raise ten billion from investors no problemo while an actual walking-talking life-saving saint makes relative peanuts!

[@IlluminatiBG]

"Young people are the future" is exactly what it means. The future is not now, it is in the future.

[@angefabricenda560]

You're a member of illuminati ?

[@IlluminatiBG]

@@angefabricenda560 No

[@jbdbibbaerman8071]

@@angefabricenda560 They ARE the illuminati

[@deadonentry]

The day that never comes

[@GOFFBITZH666]

@@angefabricenda560 I know you are, but what am I?

[@TonyEmond]

Holmes is an interesting case -- from the start her goal was to become a billionaire (not to change the world), which she did however briefly. She went about it the smart (but obviously unethical) way, using her charisma to convince trusted people to back her and join the Theranos board, but then also setting up her company in such a way that the board had effectively no real control over the company's operations. At first she thought up something (the smart patch) that was too obviously impossible to work so she changed her idea into the Theranos machine which was more "sellable", and went all Madoff from there.

[@lifeasrini]

"went all Madoff" was the best comment I've read here, perfect description 👏👏🤣🤣

[@kingqasmoke2802]

what Charisma she looks horrifying

[@noahkarpinski1824]

@@kingqasmoke2802 yeah but you're a normal person She's selling to silicon Valley investors. Who knows what alien-lizards find attractive

[@03056932]

@@kingqasmoke2802 charisma is not looks. dictionary time.

[@darraghtate440]

Now that I think of it, a Jobs devotee naming their device Edison makes TOTAL sense.

[@jaxwylde2139]

Along with the book already mentioned ("Bad Blood"), there is an excellent HBO documentary called, "The Inventor". It details how Elizabeth and her partners at Theranos managed to fool so many people/companies for so long. I've watched it several times, and it's a fascinating story.

[@jedijazzy6643]

I remember feeling bad for her when I saw the posters for the documentary plastered all over the subways in NYC which made her look like a supervillain... only to then watch it & realize she was

[@javiercollado5533]

Lol fun fact: just before her trial began, and she’s facing 30 or so years in prison, she get pregnant and now they’re trying for a different sentence

[@coolcat6341]

Very smart,,

[@ckrishna7288]

They are suiciding people, why can't they abort one.

[@theoutsiderjess1869]

@@ckrishna7288 cause the baby is an innocent person

[@BillyViBritannia]

So all I have to do to evade prison is get pregnant? Wtf

[@Andman8210]

She most likely has family that can raise it

[@nevyn1854]

You hit the nail; on the head. Not only do we commit child abuse on every child by teaching them something that CANNOT possibly be true... is true, over and over and over again. But then we live in the age of the mantra "just believe and you can achieve" etc etc. Few people actually understand how truly reductive and un helpful people like Tony Robbins have actually been.

[@ge2719]

tony robbins? thats who you go with? theres people out there getting the next generation to have their genitals surgically removed, people who promote a lifestyle of literally just scamming people using their fame. compared to them robbins is just encouraging people to try make something of themselves/

[@marhawkman303]

Yeah, excessive optimism will kill your ambitions faster than not pursuing them at all.

[@retsaMinnavoiG]

I disagree. I think it's simply 'hustle' culture. Get rich whatever it takes. I don't think saying 'if you believe you have the ability to accomplish anything if you try hard enough' is bad in of itself.

[@LiftandCoa]

​​@@retsaMinnavoiGNo its not bad by itself. Its bad when you tell it to entire generations at once. Because thats not how the world works. It creates a huge sense of entitlement when not reigned in. And "they" (people like mentioned above) do not do that.

[@JulianManatee]

Today I learned that Silicon Valley has had two main achievements: Computers and Airbnb

[@TheGrinningSkull]

Don't forget Twitch ;)

[@AB-wg8li]

And google and KZbin and apple and

[@davidlillo1606]

Uber, Lyft, Skip the dishes are pretty big aswell

[@hhuodod2209]

Umm they didn't actually invent computers.

[@bitchface235]

@@hhuodod2209 nah they just sort of revolutionized them with all the apps and websites like Google and KZbin and Facebook and twitch etc etc. Candy crush all that dumb stuff.

[@shadbakht]

Because everyone knows that the reason Steve Jobs was successful of his amazingly deep and soothing baritone voice!

[@11bornrich]

It's not as obvious as you think, a lot of people think he actually became successful because of some invention smh

[@OfficialCANVAS]

Many people like apples. To realise that... thats how Steve got succesfull

[@11bornrich]

@@OfficialCANVAS That was genuis but what was even more genius is that he figured out they like apples that have been bitten, that must've been some intense market research so if I was to give Steve any credit it would be for realising that.

[@nebufabu]

Steve Jobs: *It. Actually. Was. My. Turtlenecks. But. Speaking. Slowly. In. A. Deep. Voice. May. Be. Helpful. Too.*

[@Six_Gorillion]

And his unwashed stinky pits and nasty rank vegan farts

[@GorillazGames]

2:29 I find it funny every time you dodge the screen by moving your head out of the way real quick.

[@-----------------------------]

13 year old watches Linus tech tip videos about how to build a PC. Silicon Valley: OMG! this child will become a Software engineer who will create an AI company solving world hunger. The kid 5 years later : How do I change my DNS settings?

[@nebufabu]

Look, at least that kid knows there's DNS, and maybe even what it does...

[@tapaskumarbilash8239]

@@nebufabuor, maybe he just heard about changing dns from someone.. and to act cool he says the same

[@ext93]

When you came in my house did you see the sign that says DNS? You know why you didn't? Cause it ain't there, cause DNS aint my fckin business, that's why!

[@bitchface235]

@@nebufabu I feel like anybody born after 1985 that plays online video games has encountered a dns error before

[@pattons3rd]

Read the book Bad Blood last month. She’s even crazier than you think

[@crystalaquatica6402]

In what ways

[@looseassociation]

I loved reading Bad Blood

[@iamcarlosamaya]

Then SBF came up, played LoL while meeting with investors, and was considered the next Steve Jobs too 😂😂

[@colinpeek3246]

Wait, did y'all see how the thin mints disappeared!!?! I'm starting to think that maybe coffeezilla doesn't actually have a real ten million dollar studio and that he's trying to fool us

[@kidfisch]

Those were limited edition holographic thin mints. Trust him. He’s a chemical engineer

[@bryantony9836]

@@kidfisch hahahahaha...

[@ThatGirlJD]

His ten million dollar studio came with a green screen. It's a standard feature at that price. If he went for the five million dollar studio the green screen would have been an upgrade.

[@jonny-b4954]

Could you imagine having a boss that there was just something always off about their voice, you couldn't quite put a pin on it but it was just weird. Only to find her slip out of it randomly in conversation on rare occasions into her natural female voice? Hahahahaha man, I'd keep coming to work just for the entertainment.

[@starcrafsf7101]

Don’t understand the faking the voice, because that tone just didn’t sound natural to begin with, until just recently (like writhing the last hour before I typed this up) if you told me she went through a reassignment surgery and was doping up on hormones, I’d have said “yea i could believe it, that voice was a dead giveaway” Then come to find out that no, she just tried to artificially lower the timbre of her voice. It didn’t add credit to her image, it made her seem fake, and creepy. And well, she was fake.

[@jonny-b4954]

@@starcrafsf7101 I've always assumed/envisioned she just read something somewhere in her life that stated people look up to and take orders from "deep masculine voices" or something. Hahah

[@bobbygetsbanned6049]

@@starcrafsf7101 Women often deepen their voice because they think they will be taken more seriously, just usually not this much. Pay attention to the news some time, most of the women talk with unnaturally deep voices.

[@iidentifyasaPSLGoddess]

@@bobbygetsbanned6049 man you're right! I'm picturing watching the news with a female reporter & it's definitely deeper, they all have the same female reporter voice, this is crazy lol

[@bobbygetsbanned6049]

@@iidentifyasaPSLGoddess Yeah they do, I never noticed it until some professional women I know were talking about trying to deepen their voices. Once your hear it you can't unhear it.

[@markpiper6382]

7:44 what if I made a startup and called it "Ponzi." Thoughts?

[@DanDAmbrosio]

I want to hear her say "put the lotion in the basket" with her deep voice

[@coolcat6341]

😂😂👐

[@tonysrants1219]

Well played !!! lol

[@nedimvelic2610]

Nice😂😂

[@spazerabanekozeroshki]

Put the lotion.....In the basket

[@dimplesd8931]

Or Luke… I am your father

[@caesar03]

Oh yeah, Sillicon Valley, the place that has become the single biggest casino in the world.

[@wilfredopk3080]

Is like the dot com or the apps boom

[@ristekostadinov2820]

but sir we are disruptive company, we use AI to process the data, we are the future please invest in our company

[@OfficialCANVAS]

AI = money dump

[@stachowi]

CRYPTO: HOLD MY BEER

[@jcwynn4075]

It's hilarious but also depressing that VCs dump money into stuff they don't understand like this, while millions can hardly afford basic needs

[@santoshaveera7084]

Was literally listening to the reporter, John Carreyrou’s, book “Bad Blood” about this subject when this popped up in my notifications! It’s an insane story, glad you’re covering it. I highly recommend the book to anyone who is interested!

[@kidheyful]

I just finished it. Yep, highly recommended

[@kimberlychiimba]

Same hahah! Highly worth the read

[@jedijazzy6643]

I haven’t read the book yet, but I watched the documentary on HBO and it was insane

[@zxcvbnm2992]

Thing to note: Major Theranos Investors were: Cox, Rupert Murdoch, Betsy DeVos and Walton Family. None of these are really normal Silicon Valley VCs/Investors. It was Silicon Valley company but not really funded by Silicon Valley

[@thebitcoinalchemist3877]

Coffee - nailing it again. Bro, you are spot on. Base. Truth. Simple facts but you shine a light on these scammers.

[@calebray4168]

Lmfao the way Bill bit his lip when he said “tell them how old you were” was like he was there back then.

[@beanholder3634]

Pretty iconic seeing as Edison was a known con artist who stole many of his patents

[@datboy7810]

At least he actually was smart and did shit with patents she just strait up got money and did nothing

[@reelbytes6447]

Everybody forgets Tesla is claimed to have fallen in love with a pigeon.

[@Eyezick-l5z]

@@reelbytes6447 that makes me idolize him more somehow to be honest lmao

[@SolaceMcfly]

@@reelbytes6447 a true revolutionary showing us love can break species boundaries

[@SadEyes1412]

Where is this information from??

[@SpookyCactusOfficial]

$10B is a lot of money. Seems like it would have been a great idea to take $300K of that to do a deep dive on Elizabeth Holms (with her participation) her background/history/contacts/generally ever detail about her before handing over that money

[@HazZzur]

Right?!? Even hiring private investigators is cheap in comparison. Before I give this unknown hyped person all my money, maybe spend a couple thousand to investigate her first?

[@jumpingbombangels2856]

She actively shut down anyone who asked too many questions or challenged her. She would only work with people who bought fully into the hype and FOMO. One of her biggest investors even fired one of his closest board advisors because he was asking too many questions and didn’t believe her lies.

[@ppsarrakis]

she will use the "they will steal my top secret patent idea and copy it" card

[@Clinx999]

I swear to God, I was telling my brother the other day that this lady is changing her voice and super obvious that she is struggling to get this voice out of her throat. Lol

[@badrequest5596]

"Silly Con" Valley loves to chase unicorn tech. they're swimming in it. at one point you start wondering if they know it's a scam or that it will flop miserably and just funnel money in as a way to money launder or cash out on insurance money or legal suits somehow. after all rich people don't get rich by being noble and honest. but for the most part i think they're just too arrogant to even realize when they're being scammed. "i'm too smart to be scammed". i've heard a ex-con artist say: if you think you're too smart to be scammed, you're the perfect mark

[@Sinyao]

FOMO, they don't want to miss out on the impossible idea that has a 0.01% chance of working.

[@ekki1993]

And then crypto made the same process available to everyone else.

[@todoldtrafford]

Because they can cash out after it’s been public

[@MrMarinus18]

I think it's also that Silicon valley is increasingly losing it's relevance as there isn't much tech that really has changed anything.

[@DrFunkman]

Silicon Valley investors have a strategy: Throw money at everything and hopefully one will pay off. Remember Juicero, the juicer that was taken down by one KZbin video? They honestly just throw funding and hope

[@michelegrunwald6073]

Ooooh, Edison was perfect! He was a con as well, just ask Nikola Tesla. 😂😂😂

[@emp9413]

Yep she even left a clue!

[@RealEyesRealiseRealLies]

An alcoholic one at that too

[@RexGalilae]

At least the patents and inventions he took credit for worked though, lol

[@badrequest5596]

i know! it was too perfect. first time i heard that i laughed. did she do this on purpose?

[@hagakure222]

Nikola... Let's pray for his prompt reincarnation. We need more Teslas (not the battery operated ones)

[@mvabiv]

Your rants are priceless! “19 year old drop outs....” 😂😂😂

[@teemuvesala9575]

Can't help but feel he's also bitter to people who truly make it big from young age. Vitalik Buterin co-founded Ethereum when he was 18, I think.

[@XMrRex]

@@teemuvesala9575 he mentioned young people have made huge things before using Zucky and Jack as examples just that this doesnt set precedent for young people in the future. I dont see how thats bitter

[@edwarddutra7829]

With long intense pauses included She. Looks. Insane

[@ihavelonghere]

I think the mushy micro-dosing thing has gone on for to long over there in Silicon Valley, they're just tripping now👽

[@cabdiomar1721]

Steven,, has done so much for the internet community, that when I visit the scammers channel after Coffeezilla, they have stopped promoting their scam, some have turned to broadcasting podcasts,, Thanks man

[@Lildoc911]

Just looked her up to see where the trial was. As of today (March 10, 2022) she is out on $500,000 bail. Currently awaiting sentencing in September up to 20 years in prison, and $250,000 plus restitution. She's living comfortably in her mansion. Boy I tell ya, the rich live different lives.

[@stephansobolev2635]

I'm super happy you're going to start talking about Silicon Valley.

[@TheDanaYiShow]

Dang Sili-CON Valley would have been a great name for this series, great video as always :)

[@brunodosreis]

Silly Con

[@sleepingmorpheus]

She sounds like most 13 year old boys when they put on a "deep" voice to try to intimidate someone.

[@estebangodoy773]

"This is what happens when you work to change things, first they think you're crazy, then they fight you, and then all of a sudden you change the world." - Elizabeth Holmes ( A scammer )

[@leozinger]

And then all of sudden you're in jail

[@PurushNahiMahaPurush]

“First they think you are crazy then you prove them right”

[@ferretyluv]

She’s supposedly quoting Gandhi. This quote is used by a lot of unsuccessful people.

[@nicholasgreenwood8281]

*25 year old billionaire Stanford dropout Austin Russell has entered the chat*

[@OfficialCANVAS]

14 year trilionair from silicon valley

[@lowercasegoon]

He is fake 💀

[@californium-2526]

​@@OfficialCANVAS One-and-a-half years old dodecillionaire that was manufactured (not born!) in Silicon Valley.

[@matthewbergeron3641]

"Young people are not wise and experienced, unlike all the middle aged and old people I have to verbally warn, since they actively spend every cent they own on scam after scam" Wisdom and experience at it's peak

[@EyesOnJeremy]

"when Elon dies" No. When he gets frozen.

[@tobi_talks_2_much]

9:27 as a 19 year old, I would also like to get rid of the idea that we are gonna save the whole ass world. Like bruh, I'm barely figuring out wtf income tax is while I make less than minimum wage. Chill the fuck out tedtalks

[@LeoTheAmigo]

this channel is so refreshing. The benevolent vibes of Coffeezilla, we all need way more of.

[@cipritine]

I run testing in a large hospital lab and a friend linked this to me and the first thing in my head was SCAM SCAM SCAM SCAM and the second thing was flashbacks to having to redraw fingerstick specimens because they're so prone to shoddy results from hemolysis and clotting

[@whatsnext1677]

Thanks so much for not yelling so much :). This was great!

[@MrRevolverkiller]

she out Shatnered Shatner with those pauses

[@enzogurijala5464]

I would highly recommend the book about Theranos by John Carreyrou. He was the one that brought Theranos down by publishing a Wall Street Journal article on the subject.

[@mhill93278]

She’s talking like that to keep her voice deep 😭😭

[@anthonyl1506]

That's what I was thinking also.

[@TheJshox]

4:57 That might be part of the problem. They shouldn't be GOING to their engineers with an idea. They should BE the engineer, and have an idea.

[@cwazyazn]

I was so mad when I read about this a few years ago. I’m glad to see someone covering it!

[@adaj.8723]

it's insane that elizabeth holmes literally did that. i can watch videos about her over and over.

[@ericvarela]

The sad thing is in years and years until we can finally do what she was talking about some one will say “that Elizabeth Holmes saw this coming years ago”

[@NatePolmateer]

Badblood! A great book I read it this year. The deep voice she had was commented several times in the book that several others thought it was strange.

[@NatePolmateer]

@Alex Buttweiler Right! I couldn't put it down! another good one is shoe dog! About Nike.

[@shynessbreakthroughcommuni826]

I still don't know why she felt the need to fake her voice. The concept of using smaller amounts for testing blood is actually a good idea - as the lab testing procedures now is quite wasteful...it's just that Theranos' claim is not currently scientifically possible

[@RiceKillaz]

A lot of papers point to the direction that people interpret a lower voice as dominating and thus guiding. They believe it as well as pauses are driven into us from an evolutionary standpoint to be leading. True or not there is a reason.

[@munky342]

@AlphaFoxtrott most of us are quite adept at spotting deception at the same time though. Just that some people ignore that instinct. So while we may view a deeper voice with those ridiculous pauses (seriously, she overused that ish) as a more commanding presence, if that voice is a result of very clear deception, we won't view it as such.

[@blengi]

If I was blind and she said "Luke give into the darkside of the force!", I would've concluded I'd accidently clicked on a starwars reaction video lol

[@moondog9717]

Calling it now:- "Elon's Musk, an otherworldly, entrepreneurial fragrance in a bottle at a very premium price. It's synthesized by using cloned DNA samples from Elon's actual armpits"

[@AriannaEuryaleMusic]

I´d buy it with "SaveTheKids" Crypto.

[@GeraldMcAlister]

Just wait until you start reading up on NFTs 😂 It’s like buying the Mona Lisa Except you get a certificate that tells you what museum it’s currently in (oh, and that museum can change at any point, and your certificate won’t update) Instead of the picture

[@nas84payne]

There’ll be a shitstorm of stories in the future about the NFT scamming. People that were hooked in, the fraudsters...

[@brunobucciaratiswife]

Your comment could become an NFT :O

[@thecashewtrader3328]

@@brunobucciaratiswife lmao

[@damienstubbs6246]

Fitting that I found this comment on the same day Spencer Cornelia dropped his vid on Tekashi69's NFT scam.

[@ekki1993]

I'd go further to all of crypto. A lot of the same criticisms of Sillicon Valley vaporwave apply to crypto projects. It's all about people overpromising without a product, lying through their teeth about features never proven to work, then never delivering anything useful after hundreds of millions of dollars were wasted (mostly on marketing) or stolen. It's all about hype and calling out people doing any criticism as "ignorant".

[@soundhawg]

She was charged on January 3rd 2022. Found guilty on four counts of defrauding investors- three counts of wire fraud and one of conspiracy to commit wire fraud :)

[@gaellegroux403]

The rants in this video are super satisfying.

[@anthonygaydotcom]

You are too. ;)

[@a3ba3b74]

@@anthonygaydotcom you creep

[@anthonygaydotcom]

@@a3ba3b74 thanks

[@littlepip8343]

I can already tell this is going to be a great series!!

[@Boilio2]

At some point coffee isn’t going to duck under the screen and will just get a concussion

[@christopherflack7629]

Oh brilliant choice. You should do One Coin as well.

[@iSneakzi]

Not to be confused with Harmony.

[@pablodavidclavijo4609]

That shit was massive. I remember I was invited to one of their events, so many red flags lol

[@Blackspidy619]

@@pablodavidclavijo4609 you want red flags? I got one word for you: "BITCONEEEEEEEEEEEEeeEEECT!!".

[@areyoufakeexampletempmails2778]

Theory on the ted talk pauses: In between word snippets she needs to take a deep breath to be able to manipulate her vocal chords to produce lower pitch. She's trying to appear / appeal to men and have a more commanding male / confident / authority status voice. She took a class on evolutionary bio most likely that told her deeper voices are usually linked with males with higher testosterone - in our evolutionary past they were likely the larger more "alpha" males and so more trustworthy / in charge... in principle/theory.

[@Kai-tn4yx]

As a man, I am totally repulsed by her fake voice. I like women with female voices and men with male voices, instead of fake voices.

[@smrtfasizmu6161]

The existence of alpha males is a myth. Even the person who coined thetermalpha males acknowledged it.

[@bitchface235]

I mean if ur like a sociopath shell person like ted Bundy I could see that making sense. Which she probably is the more I think about it.

[@cleopatraonlyfans]

@@Kai-tn4yx I mean Elizabeth Holmes is a wack ass fraud but don’t you realise that’s the point? She’s faking her voice to a) avoid being sexualised and b) appear more masculine so she can be taken seriously since you know, Silicon Valley kind of has a huge problem with women as lesser than men. Elizabeth Holmes did a lot of shit wrong but repelling men like you wasn’t one of them. (Edit: I just read the comment this was replying to which is saying a lot of the same thing)

[@fart63]

Why would that ever be covered in an evolutionary bio class even if it was true 💀💀

[@WillBlacksilver]

A truck that doesn't drive is technically zero emission. Some truth there... credit where it'd due!

[@Mater_Lachrymarum]

Obsessed with learning all I can about Theranos, Bad Blood got me addicted.

[@nickmeistersa123456]

Apparently she was born into wealth and had a lot of opportunities and connections. She was able to scam so successfully by being smart and driven and having connections.

[@maxhydekyle2425]

I'm not sure why she wouldn't establish some kind of legitimate business if she is so smart. Even while doing Theranos.

[@valletas]

Just a heads up If a millionare is saying he "grew up poor" and "earned his money trough hard work" do a quick background chenck and you will see how most of them are just bullshinting you

[@briannawaldorf8485]

The thing that sucks is knowing that these scammers will actually be punished because they fuck with rich people’s money but the gurus and the crypto scams don’t because the scam working class people. And that sucks because losing $1 mil to a scam start up hurts that millionaire or billionaire less than losing $2k does to a working class person. I hope that regulators catch up and go after these smaller scammers because the inequality angers me

[@johnnybensonitis7853]

You may think you're not changing the world, Mr. Zilla, but you are changing my world. (everybody claps and "awws")

[@jamesoneill6362]

Awwww

[@kristianrjsYT]

Ah yes, finally a Coffeezilla Theranos video. Elizabeth Holmes is one of my favorite sociopaths, she's the best. Right up there with Adam Neumann, the WeWork guy. Do him next!

[@bobbygetsbanned6049]

Oh man, WeWork was a good one too. Spending more money on beer than office space and investors thought it was going to be the next big thing.

[@mikes9393]

Fun fact: he never paused the TedMed video. He just did his commentary between the breaks in her dialogue.

[@AliFareedMC]

😂😂😂😂😂

[@gmodrules123456789]

When I was a kid, I used to talk lower, because I thought it made me sound like a grown up. I guess she never grew out of that.

[@xenxander]

but it never does. It sounds so obviously fake. Normal people hear it and say, 'that's a fake voice'.

[@michaskup7919]

Book 'Bad blood' about Theranos is amazing.

[@duncangatawa9213]

Leave alone the scam she was running. That intelligent investors and the media didn't pick up on the fake voice is unbelievable. I watched an interview on a different channel and the first thing that popped in my head was "Why is she talking like that?!"

[@saavrinfaia]

“If it solves a problem, money will be THROWN at it.” - James Jani

[@leonrobinson8180]

True. That's why people are creating problems and offering overly complicated solutions

[@saavrinfaia]

@@leonrobinson8180 Because deceptive business doesn't want people understanding that their product really doesn't work

[@rahulsuresh8766]

Media to the investors be like ,"Why did you fell for her scams Investors in their mind be like"Those eyes, those stone cold blue eyes that stare at you "

[@_thechosen]

Steve Austin?

[@gorkyd7912]

Media: The Future of Medical Innovation! Slightly later: how did all these dumb-dumbs believe us?

[@KamuBodohYaKan]

@@_thechosen 3:16

[@drona9974]

Music is back! Keep up the great work

[@franka2743]

Okay, that's it, I cant take it anymore , too many people with money willing to throw it away --I''m going for it, I'm about to start a self help channel or something and start selling courses, or come up with an idea and look for folks to fund it.

[@Zyphera]

Well after basic needs are fulfilled you have overflow of money and time to do what ever you want. The value of Money and time will have diminishing return after that.

[@emp9413]

I presume you're going to think of VALUE you can sell and not a scam - otherwise see you on the show lol

[@franka2743]

@@Zyphera Basic needs already met. Trust me, if successful at this, I'll find stuff to do and things to buy 👍

[@emp9413]

@@franka2743 minus the prison but close enough I think.