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by daveguy
3840 days ago
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"It makes me wonder if she had spent at least a couple more years beefing up not just her engineering experience, but life experience, that some of the poor CEO decisions she's made would have been mitigated." I think that is a very astute observation. When you are in the top 0.01% of CEOs you don't have a lot of scrutiny. Bill Gates says that he got lucky with his success and that graduating is a much more sure path to success (http://www.nytimes.com/2015/06/04/upshot/bill-gates-college-...). If you do make mistakes or have a failure and you dropped out then that (for better or worse) is a focus and probably makes it more difficult to bounce back. She hasn't failed yet, but the fact that she didn't spend the extra year or two finishing her degree will make it more difficult if she does fail. And lets be honest. We all fail at least once or twice. |
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If she weren't so well connected or known I'd agree with you. But she isn't some unknown dropout who failed fast and hard trying to get into YC or bootstrapping in some random location in SF. Unless Theranos gets revealed as a giant fraud, I doubt she'll find it tough to find another position in the future.