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by vertex-four 3709 days ago
> they failed because their tech sucked

And in the process likely led to harm to their clients. Healthcare is one of those things that you don't fuck with, because the failure mode of bad tech isn't just that you go out of business and inconvenience a bunch of people, it's that you actually cause potentially irreparable damage to people (in Theranos's case, by providing incorrect information about people's health which they depended on).