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Theranos started in 2003 and had raised $200m+ before sunny joined in 2009. Fraud started before him.

Well, technically early on it was a real business and a genuine attempt to create the blood meter. It was when it became apparent it wasn't going to work but they still maintained that fiction was when it turned into a fraud.

A legitimate startup morphed into a fraud, coincidentally not long after Sunny joined and started secretly dating her.

You are trying way too hard to shift the blame here. I wonder why that is?

When the black natives tell us America is still a very racist country where privilege and punishment is concerned, we should listen. Some Asians stay in denial until blindsided by reality.

Apparently he brainwashed her.

I kid you not. This was an actual defense for Holmes.

Wasn't it always a fiction? Her premise for Theranos was to perform blood tests with minimal amount of blood even though the science wasn't there. I would love see a pitch decks for the raises prior to Sunny. How do you raise $200m when VC money was hard to come by during the recession?

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