Theranos CEO Elizabeth Holmes allegedly looking to start another company (gizmodo.com)

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“Look what she did, she created an amazing opportunity,” Draper told CNBC. “... I am thrilled with what she’s done.”

P.T. Barnum was right. :-(

This is a based on a Vanity Fair interview (discussed here [1]) with the author of the new Theranos book, which in turn was discussed here [2].

[1] https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=17269314

[2] https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=17252311

partycoder 8y ago ↗

She should try politics, were defrauding your stakeholders (voters) is legal.

grosjona 8y ago ↗

She should start a PR/consulting firm which helps CEOs and executives get away with lies for as long as possible and then helps them to rebuild their career when it all goes belly up.

javajosh 8y ago ↗

Hey, maybe she can partner with Martin Shkreli on something!

gremlinsinc 8y ago ↗

If that fails, there's always Bernie Madoff or Martha Stewart.

lileeyao 8y ago ↗

She and Doug Evans can make perfect partners, both of them were compared with Steve Jobs in their own market.