Re:Theranos Whistleblower Shook the Company and His Family
by prostoalex on Thursday November 17, 2016 @12:29AM
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Yeah, I wish they provided more details on this.
It would also seem rational for the investigative reporter to ping 20-30 LinkedIn contacts who listed Theranos as their employer in hopes that 2-3 would reply, so maybe he wasn't the only one the reporter contacted.
Re:Theranos Whistleblower Shook the Company and His Family
by rbobby on Thursday November 17, 2016 @10:56AM
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The reporter likely contacted a bunch of Theranos employees via LinkedIn (and probably sorted the list based on former/current).
Was Tyler the only confidential source to talk to the WSJ? Probably not. because of that whole two sources rule good journalists follow.
Re:Theranos Whistleblower Shook the Company and His Family
by cft on Thursday November 17, 2016 @12:38PM
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So your theory is that after Tyler's initial complaint, the regulators waited for a year, and then leaked the anonymous complaint to WSJ, which randomly contacted a bunch of employees, including the original anonymous tipper?
Re:Theranos Whistleblower Shook the Company and His Family
by vkou on Thursday November 17, 2016 @01:27PM
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Alternatively, another employee tipped off the WSJ (Instead of, or in addition to a regulator,) and the WSJ started contacting current, and former employees, to see if their story had any legs.
Re:Theranos Whistleblower Shook the Company and His Family
by prostoalex on Thursday November 17, 2016 @04:54PM
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WSJ has its own tipsters, the reporter in question was interviewed by Jason Calacanis a while back
Then the article says: "In March 2015, Tyler Shultz was contacted by a Journal reporter through the professional network LinkedIn."
Something doesn't match up here. I can only assume that his anonymous complaint did not reach the desired effect in a year, and he went via other channels, using his own renouned last name.