Silly question: How sciency was Holmes? Did she personally help develop her (completely fraudulent) blood tests? Or was she merely a business woman in charge of bringing this bag of hot air to market?

(Hint: I don't really care if she supposedly helped develop it. It didn't actually work. She's not some kind of genuine scientist.)

I'm just gonna leave this here and suggest that most of whatever tech was developed by these 1000+ still active companies likely wouldn't have made it to market without YC:

https://yclist.com

(Also, this isn't intended as snark. I'm just cranky at the moment and seriously cannot see why it matters that Jessica "isn't sciency." My crankiness is for wholly unrelated reasons and has nothing to do with this discussion.)

How sciency was Holmes? Not very. She dropped out of college after one year. Although many people have had great success in software with this level of education, it's kinda hard to imagine somebody making major contributions to the life sciences without even a bachelor's degree.

I would say not at all.