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“A sociopath is often described as someone with little or no conscience. I’ll leave it to the psychologists to decide whether Holmes fits the clinical profile, but there’s no question that her moral compass was badly askew. I’m fairly certain she didn’t initially set out to defraud investors and put patients in harm’s way when she dropped out of Stanford fifteen years ago. By all accounts, she had a vision that she genuinely believed in and threw herself into realizing. But in her all-consuming quest to be the second coming of Steve Jobs amid the gold rush of the “unicorn” boom, there came a point when she stopped listening to sound advice and began to cut corners. Her ambition was voracious and it brooked no interference. If there was collateral damage on her way to riches and fame, so be it.”
― John Carreyrou, Bad Blood: Secrets and Lies in a Silicon Valley Startup

“It was as if Boeing built one plane and, without doing a single flight test, told airline passengers, “Hop aboard.”
― John Carreyrou, Bad Blood: Secrets and Lies in a Silicon Valley Startup

“The way Theranos is operating is like trying to build a bus while you’re driving the bus. Someone is going to get killed.”
― John Carreyrou, Bad Blood: Secrets and Lies in a Silicon Valley Startup

“Your time is limited, so don’t waste it living someone else’s life.”
― Brent Schlender, Becoming Steve Jobs: The Evolution of a Reckless Upstart into a Visionary Leader