[bilkoo]

Prompted by this comment I looked up Theranos' investors. Turns out Rupert Murdoch was in Series A. What irony!

https://www.crunchbase.com/organization/theranos/investors/i...

[hangonhn]

But it does speak well of journalistic independence at the WSJ.

[AlexCoventry]

This is interesting. Are there regulations mandating public access to this information?

[gravis7777]

Why is that ironic?

[danso]

Rupert Murdoch owns the WSJ, which ran the major investigation that caused Theranos to first unravel:

https://www.theguardian.com/media/2016/nov/29/rupert-murdoch...

Nearly as ironic: the first public big splash article about Theranos was a puff piece in the WSJ by a Pulitzer Prize winner (the investigative story was from a 2-time Pulitzer winner, John Carreyrou)

http://archive.is/8dfJ7

[rosege]

Poor Rupert, doesnt have much luck with tech. He also bought MySpace at its peak and I think lost $700mil pretty quickly.

[ionised]

If anyone deserves to lose fortunes, it is him.