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by xkcd-sucks 3840 days ago
Why are all these articles about Holmes' personality?
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Because she refuses to talk specifics about the technology. And the subtext is that Theranos has been able to attract such a high valuation based on her personality even when the technology isn't apparently there.
Also, have you looked at Theranos website? She is just.. everywhere.
The sound of that is almost hilarious so I took a look. There are two pictures of her in the rotating highlights things and one on the company page. I clicked around on at least 10 other pages or so and didn't find any more pictures. Didn't seem like "everywhere" to me unless I happened to visit the few pages without her photo.
There are 3/6 in the rotating thing. She is the first face on Company, actually it's a one minute video of .. just her. Leadership is a jumbotron with a quote of her. Careers has another quote with bonus picture, I love this one:

“The minute you have a backup plan, you've admitted you're not going to succeed.”

Elizabeth Holmes is a category filter on their News page.

What else does a chief-executive have? Number crunching is left to the CFO. Engineering strategy to the CFO. Domain knowledge to the CMO. Operating strategy to the COO.

Did I leave anyone out?

CIO ?

My mistake.. ..that role has been outsourced to Bangalore.

The second CFO was supposed to be CTO/CIO.