Ask HN: How did Theranos get to the point that it did?

1 pointsby shahzebover 8 years ago

How did Elizabeth Holmes successfully create the biological equivalent of vaporware? How did she build such immense hype along with a $6bn evaluation for what amounted to nothing? Just trying to understand what the major contributing factors were.

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Mzover 8 years ago

<a href="http://micheleincalifornia.blogspot.com/2016/05/theranos-cult-of-personality.html" rel="nofollow">http://micheleincalifornia.blogspot.com/2016/05/theranos-cul...</a>

gregjorover 8 years ago

This was covered in detail in Vanity Fair and the Wall Street Journal articles about Theranos and Holmes.