What about the other employees/investors/board members? Are they hiding, or prefer to kill the sacrificial lamb instead?
- that an entire industry has been doing it wrong
- that it can be fixed by a low-bureaucracy, Angel-funded startup
- that once you have enough success you can just rewrite the laws that were slowing you down
- that no one knows what they're doing anyway, major projects are 100% guesswork, and you should just "fake it till you make it"
- that any skill is just a matter of 10,000 hours of practice
- that you can outsmart an industry before even passing or placing out of sophomore level classes
- that any self-doubt must be Impostor Syndrome, and so it's not worth your time to even check if that doubt has a factual basis
Well, I mean, of course, besides the HN comment section.
Maybe the extreme, cult-like nature of Theranos is going to be the next story to drop. Or maybe their tech will actually work. Who knows.