I interviewed with her. Glad I didn't take the job. She started a biomedical company based on the notion that she could diagnose most maladies with a simple blood test. We were working on a similar, but different sort of thing.
She had the reputation as a brilliant rising star in the field, fresh out of Stanford with a killer business plan. Pity it killed the angels who funded her. Currently on trial for financial fraud and generally being a bad person who poisoned a few princes on Sand Hill Road.
could diagnose most maladies with a simple blood test.
Theoretically you could replace destructive tests with nondestructive ones and do every blood test on a single sample. That's at least possible.
The real snake oil was the tiny sample. Some conditions have markers so small they may not reliably even be present in a tiny sample. If you have a false negative of 5% for these conditions in a standard sample and you take 1/100th the blood you could have a 90% false negative rate or worse.
Yes, is why I did't take the job. Ended up working at a failed amorphous silicon solar plant instead. We got the first automated line done and were looking for 300m to build 30 lines in Sacramento when Bush screwed the GM bondholders and all commercial funding dried up as a result. Bad times. Most of those folks ended up at Solaris, another notorious money sink. I passed and sat in the woods for a while.
I retired to Florida to support my father in his decline. Best 8 years of my life. Living on family ranch property with sister and BIL. My name doxes me sufficiently for anyone with a sufficiently developed vocabulary and imagination and I am old enough to not care.
That's very sweet of you. I'm sure he appreciated it a whole lot!
I'm surprised you don't care about doxxing though. They can do way more than just get you fired. They can SWAT you, or even attack you where you are. I'd suggest being careful, but maybe I'm just overly paranoid.
We are very rural and know the sheriff well in non-criminal settings. I also don't attract the fire you do. I regard actual science, the pursuit of objective truth to be my highest calling. I'm retired with FU money in the bank. I'm just not irritating enough to need to be paranoid.
In addition to the financial fraud there was also medical fraud that undoubtedly killed some people. They were providing fraudulent diagnoses to doctors based on a finger-stick of blood.
They had massive backlogs of samples at their lab and were using other companies’ equipment to do the tests. People went to Walgreens for bloodwork and it got sent to their shitbox in California. This woman should get fifty years.
I don’t give a shit about the securities fraud because the assholes who gave her money with no due diligence because of “pussy pass” deserved to be defrauded, but the shit on the medical side (including the false certifications) is horrible.
I interviewed with her. Glad I didn't take the job. She started a biomedical company based on the notion that she could diagnose most maladies with a simple blood test. We were working on a similar, but different sort of thing.
She had the reputation as a brilliant rising star in the field, fresh out of Stanford with a killer business plan. Pity it killed the angels who funded her. Currently on trial for financial fraud and generally being a bad person who poisoned a few princes on Sand Hill Road.
Theoretically you could replace destructive tests with nondestructive ones and do every blood test on a single sample. That's at least possible.
The real snake oil was the tiny sample. Some conditions have markers so small they may not reliably even be present in a tiny sample. If you have a false negative of 5% for these conditions in a standard sample and you take 1/100th the blood you could have a 90% false negative rate or worse.
You interviewed with her? Did she seem as morally questionable as she turned out to be?
Yes, is why I did't take the job. Ended up working at a failed amorphous silicon solar plant instead. We got the first automated line done and were looking for 300m to build 30 lines in Sacramento when Bush screwed the GM bondholders and all commercial funding dried up as a result. Bad times. Most of those folks ended up at Solaris, another notorious money sink. I passed and sat in the woods for a while.
Did she put on that annoying and fake baritone voice the entire time?
“Muh bluh bluh bluh...”
Did you find a good place after all that? Don't dox yourself to answer, of course.
I retired to Florida to support my father in his decline. Best 8 years of my life. Living on family ranch property with sister and BIL. My name doxes me sufficiently for anyone with a sufficiently developed vocabulary and imagination and I am old enough to not care.
That's very sweet of you. I'm sure he appreciated it a whole lot!
I'm surprised you don't care about doxxing though. They can do way more than just get you fired. They can SWAT you, or even attack you where you are. I'd suggest being careful, but maybe I'm just overly paranoid.
We are very rural and know the sheriff well in non-criminal settings. I also don't attract the fire you do. I regard actual science, the pursuit of objective truth to be my highest calling. I'm retired with FU money in the bank. I'm just not irritating enough to need to be paranoid.
What did she do? It looks just some fraud?
In addition to the financial fraud there was also medical fraud that undoubtedly killed some people. They were providing fraudulent diagnoses to doctors based on a finger-stick of blood.
They had massive backlogs of samples at their lab and were using other companies’ equipment to do the tests. People went to Walgreens for bloodwork and it got sent to their shitbox in California. This woman should get fifty years.
I don’t give a shit about the securities fraud because the assholes who gave her money with no due diligence because of “pussy pass” deserved to be defrauded, but the shit on the medical side (including the false certifications) is horrible.
Can't wait to hear more fake deep voice during the proceedings.
I expect her to blame "Sunny" for everything.
Who?
The former richest self-made woman in the world.
Emphasis on former, because everything she had was worthless.
I cant believe they are running that abusive boyfriend angle. Its more shameless than when Bill Cosby pretended to be blind. I bet it works though…
Media circus regarding Elizabeth Holmes is covering for something. Doesn't make any sense.
People in Silicon Valley, Washington and Wall Street do worse things every day. Compared to Zuck or Jack, Elizabeth Holmes is practically a saint.
Well said