06-03-2019, 10:04 AM
Quote:"She was brought by someone else who said she was the most brilliant person, and I’m like, “Don’t call people brilliant around me because I’m surrounded by Nobel laureates.”
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Q: As the hype around Theranos grew, did you ever wonder if you were wrong about Holmes?
A: No. I just thought everybody was crazy. I mean, look at the board, that’s insane. That’s not corporate feasance, that’s malfeasance to have a board that knows nothing about any of this. Old men, I’m telling you, the brains go to their groin.
I knew too much inside stuff. I’m not just watching it from afar — I’ve got this inside info coming to me about how it’s not working.
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Q: What are the lessons from the Theranos saga for Silicon Valley?
A: I think Silicon Valley is getting too much of a hit — these were friends and family investors. They didn’t do due diligence. All that myth-making was outside Silicon Valley. I didn’t find that many people at Stanford who thought she was amazing."
https://www.siliconvalley.com/2019/06/03...anos-saga/
Eric
"the older we get the better we were"