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Re:Juicero Is Shutting Down by zby on Saturday September 02, 2017 @02:34AM (#15154646)
I believe originally they thought they might make a fresh squeeze. This story is similar to Theranos - the founders/executives just did not want to accept the reality. Juicero founders eventually gave up - and devised some crazy compromise that let them pretend that it is a fresh juice - but it was quite deceiving and it did not work well.

https://medium.com/@zby/the-juicero-story-2f4f762f7e60

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Re:Juicero Is Shutting Down by CaptainZapp on Monday September 04, 2017 @05:45AM (#15166960) 

  This story is similar to Theranos
Except that Theanos recklessly endangered the health of many, many people who relied on their faulty test.

It's one thing to provide a massively overpriced juice press combined with a ridiculous subscription model than actually endangering peoples health by willful lying.

I cannot see any other reason for Theranos' conduct and if this world would be only halfway fair their executives would look at it from behind bars.

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