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by RangerScience 3355 days ago
Maybe their core product, but not their flagship product.

Theranos was built on the promise of an amazing new tech for blood testing, not on the promise of blood testing.

By "flagship product" I mean the thing you're basing your corporate identity on. Like the stereotypical waiter in LA, they're actually an actor; their identity (flagship product) is actor, but their day job (released/core products) is something else.