Elizabeth Holmes, CEO of Theranos, finally charged

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Sounds like her lawyers can can't find a real way to defend what she did.

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Anonymous wrote:Love the npr podcast series on her: “The Dropout”

I loved this too; a really great listen. (It was ABC rather than NPR though.)

Highly recommend The Dropout to anyone interested in the story. I thought it much better than the HBO doc .

Read Bad Blood instead. Greater depth.

She should be in jail. For a long time. She isn’t just a fraud, she put people’s lives at risk.

Do both! The book is brilliant, but the podcast gives you a richer understanding of several elements of the story. Plus it features her ridiculous voice, which you need to head to get just how nutty this woman is.

Watch the HBO doc.

What’s it called?

Thanks.

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Watch the HBO doc.

What’s it called?

Thanks.

The Inventor: Out for Blood in Silicon Valley

[Anonymous]

When the defense starts to go south, expect her to fire her lawyers and represent herself.

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Anonymous wrote:When the defense starts to go south, expect her to fire her lawyers and represent herself.

I'm really curious how she has afforded this slew of lawyers who kept her out of jail for 7 years. She was 'only' paid $200K - $400K in every year. The rest of her salary came in the form of stock options but with the company defunct those options were immediately worth less than toilet paper.

She is repped by a partner at Williams & Connolly which is not cheap.

https://www.wc.com/Attorneys/Kevin-M-Downey

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Anonymous wrote:she’s hot, I’d hit it

Seriously? Even her voice is fake. What a poser. The people taken in by her should be mocked publicly.

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I remember the original New Yorker article (when she was a star) and when I read about the WSJ reporter investigation, but I', listening to The Dropout for the first time.

I did not know that people had received incorrect test results--I thought they were always just having other labs do the Walgreen tests.

Why did Walgreens not get suspicious when they had to use phlebotomists?

Given the company's paranoia + hype, when they bought test equipment from other vendors, how did they keep that secret?

[Anonymous]

Just read on Twitter that a second series of The Dropout podcast will be available August 31.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:When the defense starts to go south, expect her to fire her lawyers and represent herself.

I'm really curious how she has afforded this slew of lawyers who kept her out of jail for 7 years. She was 'only' paid $200K - $400K in every year. The rest of her salary came in the form of stock options but with the company defunct those options were immediately worth less than toilet paper.

She is repped by a partner at Williams & Connolly which is not cheap.

https://www.wc.com/Attorneys/Kevin-M-Downey

Did she cash out a lot of the options when they were still worth something? She probably has tons stashed away in an account in the Caymans.

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Anonymous wrote:The documentary about her and the company was interesting. She has the crazy eyes.

And, her middle aged female advisor in college was having none of it, but Holmes got all the old guys to back her. That was really telling.

This gets me every time and such a core piece of the story.

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Anonymous wrote:I remember the original New Yorker article (when she was a star) and when I read about the WSJ reporter investigation, but I', listening to The Dropout for the first time.

I did not know that people had received incorrect test results--I thought they were always just having other labs do the Walgreen tests.

Why did Walgreens not get suspicious when they had to use phlebotomists?

Given the company's paranoia + hype, when they bought test equipment from other vendors, how did they keep that secret?

Check out the original thread on her - hilarious in retrospect: https://www.dcurbanmom.com/jforum/posts/list/405456.page

[Anonymous]

All I really want to know at this point is if she is still doing that ridiculous voice.

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Anonymous wrote:The documentary about her and the company was interesting. She has the crazy eyes.

And, her middle aged female advisor in college was having none of it, but Holmes got all the old guys to back her. That was really telling.

This gets me every time and such a core piece of the story.

So true!!

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Anonymous wrote:If you read her life history, this is a huge potential downfall of telling high school kids that they have to 'cure cancer' to get into top schools. They and everyone around them over inflates their abilities and achievements to get into "the best" schools, and in her case it looks like she followed the lie to the the point of dropping out of Stanford (who needs an education when everyone believes you are already awesome?) to continue to profit from the overinflated belief in her own achievements. High schools need to instill a little Socratic academic humility in these kids.

And her dad worked for Enron.

I got the ever living snot kicked out of me at MIT. If you want to go from feeling brilliant to stupid, they put people in their place.

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Anonymous wrote:Ah, the good old mental health defense. It will be interesting to see how the push toward “respecting mental health issues” is handled by the courts going forward.

You do believe in mental illness, right? Not saying you don't.