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Re:Major Investor Sues Theranos by jupiter90000 on Monday October 10, 2016 @09:12PM (#12681214)
If one assumes Holmes didn't realize their product didn't work (questionable at best), imagine how it must be to work 7 days a week, forego friendships and intimate relationships, and not even watch TV, then after 12 years of that discover what you tried to make didn't/won't work. In too deep or something to just admit it's over and move on.

Sounds like a very undesirable number of years with little positive to show, although maybe there were some lessons in there. Maybe time for a workaholic recovery program for her, who knows. Sad to hear the prime of a life spent like this... though perhaps not any worse than other destructive paths one could travel.

Re:Major Investor Sues Theranos by ben_jones on Monday October 10, 2016 @10:28PM (#12681479)
Except the boatloads of money she's already extracted from the company. What about the hundreds of people who propped up her vision and fueled the hundreds of puff pieces by A-level publications that walk away with absolutely nothing? What will it mean to have been a lab tech at Theranos?
Re:Major Investor Sues Theranos by jupiter90000 on Monday October 10, 2016 @10:51PM (#12681562)
Hopefully those people weren't giving up everything in their life for a job... but I guess that's anyone's choice. Money is nice to have, though I've enjoyed time with friends, loved ones, and leisure more personally.
Re:Major Investor Sues Theranos by kbart on Tuesday October 11, 2016 @08:29AM (#12683708)
"Sounds like a very undesirable number of years with little positive to show"

Hm, I wouldn't call 4.5$ billion "little". I would gladly work 7 days a week for 12 years for even much lesser amount.

Re:Major Investor Sues Theranos by poshli on Tuesday October 11, 2016 @06:13PM (#12688957)
Forbes recently decided the company had a value of near zero.
Re:Major Investor Sues Theranos by draw_down on Tuesday October 11, 2016 @01:02PM (#12686236)
Imagine how it must feel to wake up every day missing your spouse because he killed himself.