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I was thinking of Theranos a few weeks ago. And what role they would’ve played in the pandemic had they not been outed.

They likely would’ve released a fake test and gotten a lot of people killed.

Hope she gets her appropriate punishment.

I almost applied for a job there and was willing to move my family to the Bay Area to work on something that meaningful. So glad I dodged the bullet.

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I was working on a blood test startup when Theranos imploded. We spoke with a number of their top people about working with us. The truth was that while some of the Theranos team had valuable skills/connections (e.g. getting the devices deployed into retail), the entire saga had tainted their reputations and made it so difficult to raise capital for a legit device (we did two tests while Theranos claimed to do over 200 tests) to the point we couldn’t engage with any of them.

That’s a similar response to accounting personal who worked for Arthur Anderson, the one I know personally leaves a hole in his resume during the tenure and would explain it if asked. He said it was a pretty common tactic, even for those that had no roll with Enron.

That's sad. But expected. I wondered "would I have tainted myself forever" – and it sounds like it would've tainted me.

I bet working at Facebook will have similar questions to be answered.

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