Robert Blinn they don't. Those who never leave their show set and spend all the time blabbling have unfortunately more value than investigative journalists. And this is why we are seeing less of these breaking news while I'm sure Silicon Valley is infested with companies like Theranos and Hollywood is infested with people like Weinstein

he also has a motive, to sell his book, he keeps mentioning it. He makes money by spreading his storiy

@@farhananyc1963 So are you saying the story is fabricated or what are you trying to say.

@@ryanminaker157 Nope not that all, just saying he also makes money by exposing this company.. its not a bad thing, hes a journalist after all, thats his job

Farhana NYC Yeah he wrote the book after he published his article. His original motive was good. And tbh, if I was in his shoes I’d milk the situation as well

Indeed. He is objective. He should be put in charge of CNN & NYTs.

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She'll opt for a trial. Her lawyer would make jury selection consisting of old men who she'd try to charm. Chances are she'd go free.

If you are implying the old men she “charmed” she slept with I highly doubt it. These old men are rich for a reason. They are smart. They probably saw something in her they thought would be the next zuckerberg. They probably knew this was a big risky investment but took it anyway because she was probably a super saleswoman scam artist. Like a used care salesman. Promises you the world for a piece of junk.

The DeVoss money was from the family trust. So it wasn't necessarily Betsy that gave Theranos the money or met with Elizabeth, she just gets mentioned because she's the most well known.

Lmao exactly. Makes sense that she never revealed that she was in a romantic relationship with an Indian man

Basically she fucked her way to the top..

There's a thing called funding couch

It’s not even medical, she was in Chemical Engineering, at Stanford.

I'd love to know what made her think she was onto something and leave after the two semesters in chemical engineering. I mean, that'd be like someone in physics or astronomy waking up one day and saying: alright, I'm done with my academic training and I'm now off to build teleporters, or worm-hole generators or fusion power-plants. What made her go, I've invented this technique of testing a drop of blood for upwards of a hundred tests, without diluting or affecting the small blood sample. Clearly, I'm not trained in chemical engineering and my analogy might not be exactly accurate, but I'm dumbfounded by her pipe-dream!

The there risk is Very high, but so is the reward. That's the thing here, Lizzy was a sociopath. She charmed people and excluded facts. It's more like why were these board members not bothering to have due diligence?

@@preenan5123 😂

He's not the only one smiling.

She'll never do time.

She's doing time now.

Rhett Roden She slept just fine. It was 10 years that she operated this way knowing full well the tests didn’t work. Over 1 mil blood tests had to be voided, a million Americans who needed health info got completely wrong results and who knows what the consequences were for each one. My grandfather took one of her tests and luckily it was so far off what he expected that he did it again with a proper laboratory.

@Rhett Roden - ...and yet Big Pharma does it every day -- day in and day out -- and you conveniently overlook it.

Men are reckless with women’s lives daily and in a sexual manner.. but no one seems to call that out.

90% of the industry is a scam, duh

She had two MDs who should have known better though.

Exactly!!!!!

No scientists no doctors. Nothing

And the ginormous, unblinking eyes

@@RisingEdge111 😂🤣😭👁👁

i doubt it has much to do much financial advisors. From reports it seems the company did not go through seeding rounds like normal start ups but rather it was from connections he has.

Actually what she wanted to do was possible with existing technology like machine learning that could theoretically with enough data points and inferencing extrapolate very accurate results with a small margin of error. Best of all as long as you get the several dozen dimensions of data, control samples, etc... you can set up a AI machine on Amazon's AWS in less than week for only $20 an hour with 8 V100 gpus. Only thing is she intended it as a scam in the first place so even she didn't believe it was possible let alone was aware such technology existed because she never looked for it in the first place. Someone could do this right now, but I doubt anyone would take a real one seriously anymore after this.

Greed eats brain thing.

@@hassanalbolkiah127 I disagree that she always knew it was impossible. She never took money out of the company and stashed it offshore. She lost everything staying aboard that sinking ship. I think she knew she was lying, but was delusional enough to believe she would eventually change the world. That’s pretty consistent throughout her life.

@@hassanalbolkiah127 thats nonsense what you say..you can have the best A.I. but when the data is rubbish that wont help. you need more than a drop of blood thats the main issue for good analysis

I agree

I mean, he's a multi billionaire. The amount he invested in theranos was chump change. Don't applaud too hard.

@@captainyourmom - There's also the point that having his own personal front-man spearheading the investigation prevented him from investing or perhaps even losing even more money. We will never know what kind of exit strategies may have been available to Mr. Murdoch. It definitely helps to know before others when a pyramid scheme is collapsing.

Exactly.... That man earned my respect

Ya me too

The only reason that I'm pretty sure she will get jail time is because she conned money out of very rich, powerful and influential people that have ties with the government and they want revenge for being scammed out of their millions of dollars. If that wasn't the situation, I would bet she would just get a slap on the wrist

@@prg4647 And now, in 2022, she's still not imprisoned and gave a birth to a baby.

Lol, what fantasy world do you inhabit? She's from the politically connected old money. She'll skate, possibly house arrest at worse.

LOFL, " the government has a duty" I had no idea people like you still exist.

Although she was finally sentenced, I'll be surprised if she serves time. All her DNC political pals are hard at work to keep her out of prison. 150 letters to the judge requesting leniency.

There hasn't been a trial yet. Hold on a bit.

@@lciummo1 why not? What is law waiting for?

@@bluerain369 big cases take a long time. She has a good defense team

@@Mike-sp6tt yeap, America lets the team of criminal prepare for years. Why?

What happened in 2008

Fortune was also on the wrong side of the Enron fiasco. Awarding it a ‘most innovative’ rank for several years.

The book is called rollercoaster coaster?

@@DonaldSeymourjr Bad blood

The book is amazing

Diana Of Markham John has done some solid investigative journalism. The book is amazing . I just finished reading in 2 days !!!!

i think "Bad Blood" would be one of those rare movies in which the real life person looks much better than the actress portraying that person... i think Elizabeth Holmes should have tried to become a model or an actress something... Anyway, it's really too bad Elizabeth Holmes was not able to link up with a genius like "Steve Wozniak" in the medical world... if she had, the story of Theranos would have turned out completely differently and she really could have changed the world in a positive way... As it is now, i hope she does not end up in jail... i would not want to see Jeniffer Lawrence wearing prison jumpsuits at the end of her movie "Bad Blood"...

Silicon Valley itself is full of Theranos companies, even some big ones. Fake it till you make it is the standard strategy there, but some companies make it eventually and some don't. Yet they still float and keep burning investor money.

@@zolikoff The difference is that other silicon valley companies don't do business with human lives and health. So they can afford to fake it until they make it. For example, google making a blunder wouldn't necessarily cost human lives directly, may be a data center will get shut down in some remote corner in North Dakota. But Theranos directly meddled with human lives. Imagine getting a completely wrong blood test results and taking medications based off of it.

​@@brandonwiles-n8t Maybe most do not, but some definitely and very clearly do. There's Tesla for example, with the self-driving scam, plays with the lives of many people and has already led to many damages and even deaths.

@@zolikoff The trick with self driving scam is that no one is forced to choose that self-driving option. It would be problematic for melon husk if those cars had no manual driving mechanism. Theranos is like you were forced to buy a self driving car that's gonna crash eventually. Now that's a problem.

@@brandonwiles-n8t No one was forced to choose Theranos for blood test services either. But people may have chosen it because it was advertised to do something very useful, but which in reality it could not do. Thus being a scam...

No need to let us in on the secret, oh superior all-knowing one. Of course you must be so much smarter than us since you know what "THE QUESTION" is, and we do not. Could you be more pejorative???

Haha, fair enough o scorned one. I was on a Theranos binge and no one seemed to be talking about how it really started to unravel. What was the one red flag that led to him investigating Holmes and her company . Saw several docs and features but never came up until this. Happy now 😡 ?

@@kmh27pk - Thank you for taking the time to enlighten me. What amazes me is that, from the inside-out (versus the outside-in) there were hundreds of highly trained technical people involved in supporting fraud. So in one fairly large environment internal to Theranos, the fraud was well-known, while outside Theranos, it was a legitimate mystery as to what tiny detail led to its discovery. The simultaneous coexistence of these two conflicting tunnel realities seems very unusual.

Daniel in llinois It is a real page turner.

Agree with Sean Webb, definitely a page turner. It is unbelievable. Even after reading 3 chapters, I said to myself, "how is she not in jail?"

Please read. I finished it in two days. I was spellbound. Many times my blood started boiling after learning Theranos' sheer lies and scams.

I agree!

no, privilege of the highest class. It's a world common people have no idea off what is going on there. If you know about her father and the world she lived in and grew up in, it makes (more) sense.

+COO415 Exactly, just like Kim Kardashian... 0h, wait!

If It wasn't for comments like these the white privilege mantra wouldn't even pass through my mind. I guess because the word privilege causes me to think about having something most people don't have. I have the privilege to drink beer.

On the contrary this is the "quintessential definition" of favoring minorities in lieu of MERITS. In Silicon Valley women are a MINORITY in tech and especially as entrepreneurial-engineers (around 15- 20%). So thanks to SJW's, we now have a self-proclaimed "engineer" with no credentials and no experience getting all kinds of publicity and accolades. People were too afraid to actually question the minority, because that would be "sexist".

Bitch !!!

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@@PlutogalaxyThe difference is the math and technology was there for them. Computer programming had already existed long before them. In Homes’ case, nit was a matter of statistics.

How do I find his blog please?

WKWKWKWKW

It was not a new or novel idea. Has been worked on for decades. She lied and claimed there was no progress since the 1960’s.

Oh please, Trump is not a politician and he actually does tell the Truth. This woman is surrounded by DNC politicians who are hard at work to ensure that she never serves 1 day of her sentence.

She could not recruit and retain those kinds of employees.

Much less of a crime! Martha did not endanger peoples' lives including cancer patients.