![]() Rupert Murdoch invested $125 million of his own money. The leaders of both the drugstore chain Walgreen's, and Safeway saw in Theranos the opportunity to reinvent their businesses at a time when new directions were needed. Her board included Henry Kissinger, former Secretary of State George Shultz, and a smattering of former senators and other political bigwigs. These folks lack a sense of humour about fakery.īut young, gifted, and blonde makes an impression, and the collection of names that Holmes collected as investors and board members is astonishing, though weirdly eclectic. Instead, with people's lives at stake, you've got regulators and scientists, who are used to inspecting devices closely and expect peer review. ![]() ![]() The fatal flaw in this plan was that medical testing isn't like software, where it's routine to handwave over the bits that don't work yet - and anyway you're not liable because, see, it's right there in the clickwrap licence that whatever happens it's not your fault. ![]()
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