This CEO is out for blood

In any case, I'm pulling for Theranos to be successful. I've had to have a lot of blood work done recently and I've been underwhelmed by every medical lab so far. If Theranos can use a smaller blood sample AND run more tests with it, then I can't wait to be a customer.

Re: This CEO is out for blood

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Post by kleiba » Thu, Jun 26, 2014, 8:01 PM UTC

Robertson recounts. “And I kind of kicked myself. I’d consulted in this area for 30 years, but I’d never said, here we make all these gizmos that measure, and all these systems that deliver, but I never brought the two together.”

Really?

I hope this CEO chose the right partner... :-)

Re: This CEO is out for blood

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Post by rudimental » Thu, Jun 26, 2014, 8:01 PM UTC

Wow, what a story. They sound like they're killing it, the founder's motivation is admirable, and she's making a positive dent in the world. I hope they succeed.

Inspiring.

Re: This CEO is out for blood

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Post by Procrastes » Thu, Jun 26, 2014, 8:10 PM UTC

> “I realized that I could have just as well been looking into the eyes of a Steve Jobs or a Bill Gates.”

> Though Theranos is largely unknown even in Silicon Valley, that is about to change.

> Precisely how Theranos accomplishes all these amazing feats is a trade secret.

> The analyzers look like large desktop computer towers. Holmes declines to explain how they work, or even allow them to be photographed, citing the need to protect trade secrets. The company manufactures them at an unmarked facility I toured in a research park across the South Bay from Palo Alto, in Newark, Calif.

> the single most accomplished board in U.S. corporate history. It includes former U.S. Secretary of State, Treasury, and Labor George Shultz; former Secretary of Defense Bill Perry; former Secretary of State and National Security Adviser Henry Kissinger; and former U.S. Senators Sam Nunn and Bill Frist

> In a rare if not unprecedented rout this past March, the patent holders unconditionally surrendered midtrial, stipulating to the invalidity of their own patent. As a kicker they agreed–though the presiding judge would have been powerless to order such a thing himself–to bring no additional patent suits against Theranos for five years.

> retired U.S. Marine Corps Gen. James Mattis, explaining why he signed up last fall as another of Theranos’s strikingly illustrious outside directors. Mattis had stepped down just months earlier as commander of the U.S. Central Command–the chief of U.S. military operations in the Middle East and Central Asia

... zombie ... apocalypse

Re: This CEO is out for blood

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Post by dsr12 » Thu, Jun 26, 2014, 8:13 PM UTC

Loved this quote from her professor: “To me, I wish I wasn’t 70 years old. I wish I was her age and could be in on this. Because this is going to be a long, exciting, fascinating, exhilarating ride.”

Re: This CEO is out for blood

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Post by JonnieCache » Thu, Jun 26, 2014, 8:16 PM UTC

Procrastes wrote: post #7

> “I realized that I could have just as well been looking into the eyes of a Steve Jobs or a Bill Gates.” > Though Theranos is largely unknown even in Silicon Valley, that is about to change. > Precisely how Theranos accomplishes all these amazing feats is a trade secret. > The analyzers look like large desktop computer towers. Holmes declines to explain how they work, or even allow them to be photographed, citing th…

The whole article was pretty weird. Anyone care to speculate what's going on here?

Re: This CEO is out for blood

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Post by _mikz » Thu, Jun 26, 2014, 8:21 PM UTC

What a crap fortune.com is. The article is nice though.

edit: can't print it, does not work with ghostery/adblock, loads different articles after scrolling, ...