Elizabeth Holmes urged employees to hide Theranos’ lab equipment from inspectors

Post by elkos » Sat, Oct 02, 2021, 10:09 AM UTC

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I mean, we can go the other way by looking at SpaceX. I spent years reading detailed reports from experts that everything SpaceX was doing was impossible. -A rocket made of steel -Landing a rocket anywhere -Landing a bigger rocket anywhere -Landing a rocket on solid ground -Landing a big rocket on the ground and a lot of smaller things in between. I read many plausible looking reports on the non-feasability of these…

For the risk of being a broken record, nobody claimed that reusable rockets were technically impossible. The argument was that they were rather financially unfeasible due to a limited number of LEO launches, so nobody tried (I lost the ESA study on this from the early 2000s unfortunately...). I'd really love that myth of SpaceX doing the impossible with landing rockets to die. Also because they don't have to, they we…

Post by aj7 » Sun, Oct 03, 2021, 7:26 PM UTC

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A dead giveaway for throwaway board seats: Nobel Prize winners, generals, politicians. Another: “professional board members” who sit on multiple boards but have never had senior executive roles involving profit and loss. These people may be accomplished in their own right, but they know little about business. They are there for lunch, the fat fee, and to pose. And when a big company has a NUMBER of these types, i.e.…

> “professional board members” who sit on multiple boards but have never had senior executive roles involving profit and loss How do they get to this position without having been senior execs?