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Chamath: No professional Silicon Valley VCs invested in Theranos
“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.”
Sachs: Media overlooked Theranos red flags to champion a female Steve Jobs
“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…”
Sacks: VCs just funded a startup to fulfill Theranos's original promise
“Now, J.Cow, another company just got funded to do the same thing that Theranos promised it was going to do.”
Calacanis: Elizabeth Holmes premeditatedly lied by running blood tests on Abbott machines
“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…”
Sacks: Founders can sell vision but must be truthful about current status
“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…”
Friedberg: Juicero was similar to Theranos in making false hardware claims
“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.”
Chamath: Failed 5 or 6 times attempting to build Theranos competitors
“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.”
Sacks claims no Silicon Valley VC firm invested in Theranos
“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.”