A tiny drop of blood, instead of a needle and a lab, and a radical idea to revolutionize medicine, disrupt the entire health care system, and maybe even change the world.
This was the infamous Elizabeth Holmes/ Theranos story: a young, ambitious entrepreneur with a bold idea, inspiring a great suspension of disbelief in a lot of people dying to believe in her.
It’s also a becoming-all-too-familiar tale of toxic tech hubris swollen with cart-before-the-horse overconfidence — the tech unicorn company tried to sell their ideas based on a technology they hadn’t yet created, defrauding investors out of billions in the process, hurting patients, and disgracing their founder and company in the process.
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