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After reading this about Theranos: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=29765308

It seems that we need to post this. Another of my all time favorites.

She didn't go to jail yet, but if there was a law against hubris, she'd have multiple life sentences.

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I see her more as tragically naive.

But then, it's sometimes hard to tell where one leaves off and the other begins.

It's possible to be naive and not have that kind of attitude.

Or is she naive to the awesome level of her naivete, Dunning-Krueger style?

The only thing she's right about is she's genius at gaming the venture capital world.