Being a woman that ticked all the boxes for a big investment was exactly one of Holmes main selling features, so a lot of the author's points ring hollow. Everyone was / is looking for a success story like hers, and she shrewdly took advantage. I agree fully that she didn't do anything out of step with what other startup founders are doing all the time. It's just that the stakes are higher in front line diagnostic medicine than in some SaSS thing, and so a failure has a higher cost. But overall,
I'm not guilty. You're the one that's guilty. The lawmakers, the politicians, the Colombian drug lords, all you who lobby against making drugs legal. Just like you did with alcohol during Prohibition. You're the one who's guilty. I mean, c'mon, let's kick the ballistics here: ain't no Uzi's made in Harlem. Not one of us in here owns a poppy field. This thing is bigger than Nino Brown. This is big business. This is the American way.