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Re:Theranos devices ran “null protocol” to skip actual demo ... by the_jeremy on Wednesday October 20, 2021 @07:18PM (#28938121)
The first iPhone demo involved bringing in a portable cell tower, hardcoding signal strength to always show 5 bars, and repeatedly swapping out phones throughout the demo because using one through the whole presentation would have caused it to crash[0].

I believe Theranos was worse in many ways, but running misleading demos to drum up hype sounds pretty par for the SV course.

[0]: https://www.nytimes.com/2013/10/06/magazine/and-then-steve-s..., https://www.techspot.com/news/54246-former-apple-engineer-re...

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Re:Theranos devices ran “null protocol” to skip actual demo ... by Aloha on Wednesday October 20, 2021 @07:35PM (#28938270)
Bringing in a COW is standard course when you have a large number of people in one place, even in 2007.
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