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Ask HN: How did Theranos get to the point that it did?
1 points by shahzeb 3544 days ago
How did Elizabeth Holmes successfully create the biological equivalent of vaporware? How did she build such immense hype along with a $6bn evaluation for what amounted to nothing? Just trying to understand what the major contributing factors were.
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This was covered in detail in Vanity Fair and the Wall Street Journal articles about Theranos and Holmes.