Theranos

“If you got one of those guys, you got one guy like Kissinger on your board, it's okay. If they're all like that, it's a problem.”

“She had 99% voting power in the company. 99%”

“The truth of the matter is there was no major Silicon Valley VC firm. In fact, not even a minor one that invested in Theranos.”

“It was very, Similar to Theranos in the sense that there was a piece of hardware that made a claim that wasn't necessarily true.”

“Now, did gender play into it? Yeah, but I think not necessarily in the way that Ellen Powell thinks in this sense that the media wanted to believe so badly that the next Steve Jobs was going to be a woman that they kind of look past what should have been stari…”

“Look, I've tried to build competing products to Theranos for years. I've been pretty public about this. I've tried five or six times. They failed every single time. I couldn't even get out of the starting line.”

“She obviously misled people in a premeditated way and lied to them, like taking their blood sample and then putting it in a fake machine, then doing it in the back on an Abbott machine and then bringing the results back and making it on her Theranos Edison mac…”

“As a founder, you can be as messianic as you want to be. You can promise, you know, anything about your vision and what you intended to the future, but what you must do is be accurate about the current state of your business. You cannot lie about the deals tha…”

“There's not a single person in Silicon Valley, I think, who put in a single shekel into this thing who actually does this as a real job.”

“Now, J.Cow, another company just got funded to do the same thing that Theranos promised it was going to do.”