![]() ![]() Carreyrou’s gripping investigative report takes readers through every grim step of the company’s sky-high goals and its underground lies, double dealings, and secrets. The collapse of Theranos is now a story as familiar as the South Sea Bubble and the subprime mortgage crisis. It seemed about time to have an exciting new tech story with a woman at the head. Was I also a little inspired by the fact that the founder of Theranos, Elizabeth Holmes, was a young woman? Yes, I was. ![]() Russ Roberts was excited, too, and back in 2015 had enthusiastic conversations with Eric Topol and with a panel of economists about Theranos and its probable impact on American health care. ![]() It could improve the quality of life for millions. With aging parents who seemed to need tube after tube of blood drawn whenever something was amiss, and with a husband who was decidedly needle-phobic, I instantly saw that what Theranos promised was revolutionary. ![]() Instead of painful blood draws from veins, Theranos had technology that was going to allow hundreds of lab tests to be run from the drop of blood drawn from a single finger stick. It was this new medical tech company that was going to revolutionize lab tests for blood. I still remember the first time I heard about Elizabeth Holmes’s company Theranos. ![]()
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