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Legally, I think the jury was right to convict her, but I have little sympathy for big investors like the DeVos family and Murdoch. They were sophisticated investors and the fact that people like Kissinger, Schultz, and Mattis were on the Board of Directors should have immediately raised a “duty of inquiry” flag: what do these people — especially Kissinger and Schultz at their ages — know about running a hi tech company or the technology?
Ironically, it is the patients -- the people whom the jury did not convict her of defrauding -- who might have been the most injured. What if you received an erroneous Theranos test result saying that you did -- or did not -- have a serious disease, causing you in the first instance, to panic and expend a lot of time and money on more tests and doctors before finding out the correct situation, or, in the second instance, not get treatment until the disease progressed?

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Legally, I think the jury was right to convict her, but I have little sympathy for big investors like the DeVos family and Murdoch. They were sophisticated investors and the fact that people like Kissinger, Schultz, and Mattis were on the Board of Directors should have immediately raised a “duty of inquiry” flag: what do these people — especially Kissinger and Schultz at their ages — know about running a hi tech company or the technology?
Ironically, it is the patients -- the people whom the jury did not convict her of defrauding -- who might have been the most injured. What if you received an erroneous Theranos test result saying that you did -- or did not -- have a serious disease, causing you in the first instance, to panic and expend a lot of time and money on more tests and doctors before finding out the correct situation, or, in the second instance, not get treatment until the disease progressed?