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Elizabeth Holmes’ 11-year prison sentence shortened by two years

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Reduced sentencing for cooperation with law enforcement

I called it.

F* these people, really. Drug dealers get 20 times the sentences and don't get to go home early if they bear children while awaiting trial. They don't even get the chance since bail is probably denied.

I guess crime does pay in the United States. How long is she bared from starting a company? 10 years? When is she going on book tour to talk about her "hard" life? When's the movie coming out? Who's going to play her?

The real Wolf of Wallstreet has over 500k subscribers on YouTube and is again getting in trouble. This time it's crypto, go figure.

> When's the movie coming out? Who's going to play her?

Was in development at Apple/Lionsgate, directed by Adam McKay, and starring Jennifer Lawrence.

Edit: May be out of production now, as Lawrence believed that the TV show (The Dropout, starring Amanda Seyfried) did too well last year. https://twitter.com/kylebuchanan/status/1587835427838271488?...

Silicon Valley's daughter.

I feel for her. Should have thought twice before giving an internship to one of those Berkeley SJWs. Lost a 9 billion dollar company and all those talented people fired.

Was there such a whistle blower?

You sympathize with creating a fraudulent medical business?

So, if you look at most successful companies they did the fake it till you make it to a degree. It’s a necessary strategy sometimes. Had Theranos succeeded it would’ve disrupted a major industry and that made Elizabeth Holmes a lot of enemies. These SJWs are useful idiots. They’ll do your dirty work for a little virtue signaling opportunity

Holy shit. Am I misreading your comment? It sounds like you're justifying lying and cheating in order to make money.

I think that's exactly what they're condoning.

It’s never that clear cut. If Theranos had a little more time they could’ve finished the product and significantly reduced the costs for medical providers, which would almost certainly have meant many lives saved and a boost to the economy.

Was that intern sincerely trying to help the world? I doubt it. Self interested and opportunistic. Having lived in Berkeley for a few years I know how twisted their crazy political world view is. Those people are radicals and totally untrustworthy.

> If Theranos had a little more time they could’ve finished the product and significantly reduced the costs for medical providers, which would almost certainly have meant many lives saved and a boost to the economy.

So firstly - that's pure speculation.

Secondly and more importantly - they didn't just claim they had this technology working, they had actual people using it to inform their medical decisions. Fake it until you make it is never ever going to be ethical if you are operating in the medical diagnostics industry and you are actually having patients use it. What they did had the potential for causing great physical harm and even killing people due to misdiagnosis/clearing people of conditions they may have.

Blood tests aren't a fucking web app.

Please never work in an industry where human (or other) lives are at stake. It pays less than whatever ad-tech world you live in, and second you'll feel horribly out of place talking to people with stupid things like "ethics".

Attending Berkeley doesn't mean that you understand everything about how the world works. I went to the sister/better school down south, and it was also full of book-smart dumb-dumbs. Get over yourself.

> look at most successful companies they did the fake it till you make it

Hot alternative take: fuck those companies, world would have been better off without their products corrupted by the fraudulent mentality at inception.

I suspect this guy is just a professional-level troll.

I would agree that some of the companies that "faked it til they made it" don't really deserve to be around, but I wouldn't go so far as to say "fuck all those companies"

I specifically referred to fraud - lying and cheating to get ahead. If you support that kind of thing then I don't really know what to tell you. That's the kind of mentality that's fucking up this world.

This comment is wrong on so many levels:

- Berkeley SJWs

Is it "Social Justice Warrior" to complain that your lab is giving false results to people? I would have thought that was basic human decency.

It's really unfortunate that our world is so polarized that some people see everything through the lens of culture wars. Theranos had nothing to do with the culture war. It was fraudulent lab results.

- 9 billion dollar company

Turned out none of the technology worked, otherwise someone would have bought it for something. So it was never worth anywhere close to $9bn

- talented people fired

Talented people given an opportunity to find new jobs at the height of the market, rather than waiting for Theranos to inevitably fall apart during the eocnomic downturn.

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