>Could you imagine being in her industry, and having the patience to go through years of trials and testing and passing through regulations?

I have worked at two reasonably successful healthcare startups. No 'unicorns', but they paid good salaries, made money, and were purchased for a decent price by bigger players. We waited. In the meantime we sold to researchers and performed LDT's (as Theranos did) to bring in revenue.

You do your work and put in the time. There is no other reasonable option. We didn't require a lying, arrogant CEO to pull it off.