Comments by "" (@charlesvan13) on "Theranos – Silicon Valley’s Greatest Disaster" video.

That she idolized Steve Jobs is the first red flag. Steve Jobs was a marketer who took advantage of talented engineers. She hoped to do the same but the engineers in her company didn't succeed. There was no invention to take credit for, so she resorted to fraud.
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@mrkiky Her patent, that she got while in college was absurd: a patch which tests the patient and delivers the right anti-biotic. That's like getting a patent for nano-bots which enter the body and remove a tumor. I watched the Steve Jobs Movie and the whole time was shocked at what an asshole he was. He was a deadbeat dad after he was already worth 10 mil. He would design the case on a computer, while the engineers who built the circuitry got no credit.
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It was likely an unrealistic idea. There is a constant stream of crowd funded invention ideas which are just not doable. They're usually be people who are not experts in the field, so they they don't understand basic computation or engineering obstacles. She did the same thing at a larger level, publicly traded company, and so committed corporate fraud.
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@cortezforever But it's in a subject that requires a PhD to make original break throughs in. Just a couple semesters at Stanford did not give her an realistic idea of what's doable. Thunderfoot has a video every couple months of another idea being crowd funded and praised by the media, which will never happen for simple reasons, such as violating the laws of thermodynamics. They end up having to return the money to contributors. Holmes took it to a criminal level by starting a publicly traded company and lying to investors.
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You know she just made that up. She's a proven fraud. I've been to Oakland, the Bronx, Harlem and have never been shot at.
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@VileSentry That's why my comment got nearly 500 likes, and yours 0.
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