Kimberly T’s Reviews > Bad Blood: Secrets and Lies in a Silicon Valley Startup > Status Update

“Shoemaker and the little military delegation he was leading had been invited to Palo Alto to bless Theranos’ plans to deploy its devices in the Afghan war theatre, not to raise objections about its regulatory strategy.”

Oh boy. Tech that doesn’t work in warfare.

“With Walgreens and Safeway on board as retail partners, Elizabeth suddenly faced a problem of her own making: she told both companies her technology could perform hundreds of tests on small blood samples. The truth was the Edison could only do immunoassays…many other routine blood tests required completely different laboratory techniques.”

Elizabeth. Seriously.

“With her black turtleneck, her deep voice, and the green kale shakes she sipped on all day, Elizabeth was going to great lengths to emulate Steve Jobs, but she didn’t seem to have a solid understanding of what distinguished different types of blood tests. Theranos also failed to deliver to let him see its lab and to demonstrate a live vitamin D test on its device.”

“The company was lurching from one ill conceived initiative to another. … Encouraging someone to rely on a theranos blood test to make an important medical decision was something else altogether. Chelsea found it reckless and irresponsible.”

And she couldn’t tell anyone that she left!

Pfizer pulling out of collaboration with Theranos and this not being told to Chelsea running a study with a different pharmaceutical partner..

“Elizabeth was so persuasive. She had this intense way of looking at you while she spoke that made you believe in her and want to follow her.”

"If the Theranos system was in the final stages of fine-tuning as he'd been told, how could a completely different technical issue be the new holdup every quarter? That didn't sound to him like a product that was on the cusp of commercialization."

what kinda spell did Elizabeth Holmes put on people to continue investing.. actually its manipulation and threats and all the classic stuff

Ok Elizabeth being unable to explain further about her microchip patch system that can analyze blood and make a “process control decision” about how much drug to deliver…. Girl, just out here lying

Guys, the blood test stuff of Theranos 1.0 doesn’t even work, they played a video recording of the non real time result to the investors.

“The first set of numbers he’d come up with hasn’t been to her liking, so he’d revised them upward. He was a little uncomfortable with the revised numbers, but he figured they were in the realm of the plausible if the company executed perfectly.”

Nathan Fielder’s You Can See Everything comes out in October! I wanted to know more about Theranos!