Learnings from 5 years of tech startup code audits

Re:Learnings from 5 years of tech startup code audits by stonemetal12 on Thursday May 26, 2022 @12:25PM (#31520295)

I wouldn't count Theranos' failure a tech problem. I would consider it a fraud problem.

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Re:Learnings from 5 years of tech startup code audits by pphysch on Thursday May 26, 2022 @12:44PM (#31520524)

I'd hazard a guess that many cases of startup fraud start out as good-faith delusions of grandeur, and only pivot to bad-faith fraud when the founders realize it's the only option to keep the lights on. Because the product results aren't there.

That is, plan A is Stripe, plan B is Theranos.

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Re:Learnings from 5 years of tech startup code audits by jacquesm on Friday May 27, 2022 @05:04AM (#31527489)

You may well be on to something here. But I've seen a couple where plan A was Theranos.

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