These attempts to equate Holmes with other tech CEOs are bizarre.<p>Theranos was a fraudulent company, full stop. They weren’t even a Silicon Valley darling as many VCs famously passed on the company after some due diligence. Their primary investors were family offices like the Cox family, the Walton family, and Rupert Murdoch because they couldn’t get their fraud passed actual tech VCs, who were handing out investment money to everyone else with a decent idea at the time. Even their board and advisers were mostly composed of people with political and other backgrounds unrelated to blood testing or tech.<p>There is no equivalence between Theranos’ outright fraud and other tech CEOs being optimistic about the future of their tech companies. The way the media is trying to downplay their fraud and equate it with other, successful companies is bizarre.