Tim Draper defends Theranos and its disgraced founder and CEO, Elizabeth Holmes
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Re: Tim Draper defends Theranos and its disgraced founder and CEO, Elizabeth Holmes
#2> “Why is [Theranos] worthless? It’s worthless because this writer was like a badger going after her, like a hyena going after her, and then it became a bigger and bigger thing,” he said. “She got bullied into submission,” Draper explained, adding that if it weren’t for Carreyrou and other opponents, Theranos “could have been one of these big, huge winners.”
And we would've gotten away with it too, if it weren't for that meddling journalist!!! shakes fist in the air
Re: Tim Draper defends Theranos and its disgraced founder and CEO, Elizabeth Holmes
#3From what I understand about biology (which is little), there was no real way this was ever going to work. Am I missing something?
Re: Tim Draper defends Theranos and its disgraced founder and CEO, Elizabeth Holmes
#4> “Amid his mind-boggling defense, the investor did admit that Theranos was now in the “loser column” of his investments list, a list that also includes Tesla and Bitcoin.“
Interestingly, at Collision Conf this year, while on stage being interviewed, he was pumping up Bitcoin like it was going to the moon. Strange investor I guess.
Re: Tim Draper defends Theranos and its disgraced founder and CEO, Elizabeth Holmes
#5Can’t blame him for trying. It puts a seed of an alternate story into our minds. How do other streams of “alternative facts” get started? And many people want to believe that Big Medicine is keeping breakthroughs from us.
Re: Tim Draper defends Theranos and its disgraced founder and CEO, Elizabeth Holmes
#6Can't people stop beating this dead horse already. She screwed up, her company is dead, just let her be.
Re: Tim Draper defends Theranos and its disgraced founder and CEO, Elizabeth Holmes
#7There is so much I'll never understand about business, business people, and people who remain loyal to them. I wonder if I s/business//g will I see the same thing?
Re: Tim Draper defends Theranos and its disgraced founder and CEO, Elizabeth Holmes
#8From what I understand about biology (which is little), there was no real way this was ever going to work. Am I missing something?
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Re: Tim Draper defends Theranos and its disgraced founder and CEO, Elizabeth Holmes
#9From what I understand about biology (which is little), there was no real way this was ever going to work. Am I missing something?
What they promised is theoretically possible, but they ran afoul of the huge practical problems that made people with actual biology and engineering backgrounds (like myself) very, very skeptical.
Re: Tim Draper defends Theranos and its disgraced founder and CEO, Elizabeth Holmes
#10From what I understand about biology (which is little), there was no real way this was ever going to work. Am I missing something?
What they promised is theoretically possible, but they ran afoul of the huge practical problems that made people with actual biology and engineering backgrounds (like myself) very, very skeptical.
(Oh, and massive financial shenanigans.)