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Re:How Theranos Misled Me by code4tee on Sunday December 20, 2015 @11:55PM (#10769650)
The company seems to be grasping at straws in desperate attempts at damage control now that everyone seems to be catching on that the company is perhaps more hype than substance. Certainly not the first time in business history that a product has failed to live up to initial expectations, but if theres a feeling that people were misled about what was real vs. conceptual then it can get ugly quite quick.
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Re:How Theranos Misled Me by firebones on Monday December 21, 2015 @12:21AM (#10769701)
"not the first time..."

What other product/company has not lived up at this scale, and with this capitalization?

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Re:How Theranos Misled Me by throwawaymsft on Monday December 21, 2015 @12:32AM (#10769735)
Microsoft wrote down its entire purchase of aQuantive for 6B.
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Re:How Theranos Misled Me by bloaf on Monday December 21, 2015 @02:29AM (#10770036)
Webvan.com
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Re:How Theranos Misled Me by code4tee on Monday December 21, 2015 @12:23AM (#10769706)
Fair point. I was going to say Clinkle, but they were no where near this valuation.
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Re:How Theranos Misled Me by ihnorton on Monday December 21, 2015 @08:42AM (#10771004)
Autonomy.
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