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Always fun to go back in time and look at what people were saying about Elizabeth Holmes and Theranos, like 2 years ago:

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=7951019

or

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=8181339

I find it insightful to see who was "right" and who was "wrong". There were a surprising number of people from the medical field expressing doubts about the technology.



i remember that one https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=8182026

That day I just basically learned about Theranos existence from the posted article, and that comments post explained to me what it is about :)


> There were a surprising number of people from the medical field expressing doubts about the technology.

And were dismissed because their industry was being "disrupted".


Perhaps should have been titled "30 year old vaporware sector billionaire"




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