Re:Elizabeth Holmes' Final Months at Theranos
by hjk05 on Friday February 22, 2019 @02:12AM
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I think it’s wrong to say they knew it would never work. They tried quite hard to make it work, they just never had the breakthrough they expected and the CEO had already sold the world on.
That part I find quite like many other startups where the CEO will gladly go on stage saying “we built this amazing app, that does X, and will be launching in 2 months!” And talking to the coders will have them saying “yea he didn’t decide we should do that until last week, so we havn’t actually started, we still havn’t finished The first model he pitched.”
The main difference to Theranos is then that mostly the software promises are just a question of time(AI promises excluded), where they actually had a big unknown in basic feasibility.
That part I find quite like many other startups where the CEO will gladly go on stage saying “we built this amazing app, that does X, and will be launching in 2 months!” And talking to the coders will have them saying “yea he didn’t decide we should do that until last week, so we havn’t actually started, we still havn’t finished The first model he pitched.”
The main difference to Theranos is then that mostly the software promises are just a question of time(AI promises excluded), where they actually had a big unknown in basic feasibility.