Not only was it clearly spelled out (this is a federal court, after all), but the judge specifically identified the 11 investors who were defrauded and the total amount of fraudulent gains to come up with that $140 million (the prosecution wanted it to be based on $800 million).

Read Bad Blood and you will understand why.

Theranos used Siemens machines to perform blood tests instead of their "miracle" machines. German engineers know how to get the job done!

They were using smaller amounts of blood and diluting them outside the machines' spec.

Not much even German engineers can do about that.

Why can't she claim they made some dumb modification - and combined with using the Siemans machine out of spec - that it was the "Theranos Machine"?

This seems like startup 101.

On one hand, I can see why it's fraud. On the other hand, I can't - because it seems indistinguishable from a lot of businesses.

> This seems like startup 101. On one hand, I can see why it's fraud. On the other hand, I can't - because it seems indistinguishable from a lot of businesses.

This is the problem right here. Fake it till you make it bullshit. Rather than actually innovating, just pretend you are.

> Why can't she claim they made some dumb modification - and combined with using the Siemans machine out of spec - that it was the "Theranos Machine"?

Well, because we're talking about medical diagnosis, not a note-taking app. You don't get to just make claims, you need to prove them.

They didn't work with the amount of blood that they were providing.

Yes. There was a lot more.

She is an attractive public women in a male domain that made a big mistake. Male startup founders have indeed done mistakes on equal or worse level.

For the past years tech bros felt like this gives them a free ticket to negatively obsess about her, and unload their hate on females on her for bonding.

That is well-studied primate behavior which you can read up. Destroying the confidence and perceived self-value of the available wombs assures that they don’t leave their tribe. They are also more likely to mate with low value males (instead of focusing on high status only) if they don’t see value in themselves.

A female Elon Musk is unthinkable at the current human state, unless we remove the ancient primate behavior from the pool.

I really want to know, who is the male business executive who endangered the health of thousands of people by giving them faulty medical information, or something similarly serious, and wasn't punished?

I have heard many people say this about Holmes, but never with an example. It has begun to seem like a presumption of sexism is its own evidence, no actual evidence needed.