This is her priority right now?? For a while it has been clear she is more interested in self aggrandizement than ensuring her technology actually works.
You cannot make this shit up. How full of herself can she possibly get? The Adam McKay movie is going to be particularly fantastic if there are more examples like this.
Steve Jobs drove himself to work. According to Fortune, in 2013 HP spent $1700 on security for Meg Whitman and Amazon spent $1.6M on Jeff Bezos [1]. It's really all over the map. And presumably the costs go up if the company is exposed in scandal and investors are unhappy with the CEO or they begin to receive threats.
He had at least one armed guard at his house driveway entrance 24/7. I suspect he had at least one other somewhere. But he drove himself to work in a pretty regular car and didn't have guards anywhere but his home that I can tell. We worked in a big building that had cops on the first floor during business hours, so I guess that was covered too.
This guy is very private though, and you wouldn't know he was a billionaire unless you worked with him. There's barely any information on him if you Google him.
I'd say that a big security detail is the most defensible decision she's made so far...
I half-wonder if there's some government angle to Theranos that hasn't been quite uncovered yet.
> Holmes worked in the field with USAID missions in Pakistan, Bangladesh, Indonesia, Egypt, Yemen, Ghana, Haiti, Liberia, Kenya, and Ethiopia.
> Holmes served in the U.S. Army, Second Lieutenant, Civil Affairs, receiving the U.S. Army Soldier’s Medal for Heroism.
thinking as a Russian, i can see how that can be a channeling of [investors'] money to the CIA friends [of the father, of the board members, etc...]. You know a typical cost+ [a lot of '+'s] contract or something like it...
The board will be very happy to find a scape-goat and get out with their own hides in one piece, and they're all past masters at playing that game.
http://www.theverge.com/2016/6/9/11896534/jennifer-lawrence-...
"In addition to making frequent media and conference appearances, she hired Academy Award-winning director Errol Morris to film videos of herself and others for Theranos’s website."
Which one of those things is better for her career, do you think?
It's interesting that she contacted a producer of 'The Jinx', given that the series was ultimately a vehicle for Robert Durst, a wealthy individual long suspected of multiple murders, to publicly confess to his crimes. I wonder if she's perhaps planning a similar confessional documentary, in the hopes of salvaging some of her reputation.