[mattmanser]

Unimportant factor?

A better comparison would be if Uber had claimed they had self-driving car before they'd even entered the market, had started doing rides, and then it turned out Lyft drivers were surreptitiously hidden inside the front of the car and were actually driving instead of the mystical self-driving computer.

That's how it looks at the moment with the way Theranos is behaving.

[Dr_tldr]

...I think you just came up with an amazing new startup. All we need now are some Iron Man halloween costumes and some disgruntled Lyft drivers.

[nradov]

The funny thing is that this is exactly what some lean startup advocates would propose as a "concierge MVP" to test the viability of the self-driving car market before spending money on actually developing the technology.

[codezero]

How, and to whom did Theranos over-promise?