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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.”
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…”