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July 21 - July 25, 2018
evangelizing was what successful startup founders did in Silicon Valley. You didn’t change the world by being cynical.
It might be theoretically possible, just like manned flights to Mars were theoretically possible.
it was like a web of rubber bands. Pulling on one would inevitably stretch several of the others.
“When you strike at the king, you must kill him.” Todd Surdey and Michael Esquivel had struck at the king, or rather the queen. But she’d survived.
I will use my ability to file patents and fuck with her till she dies, absolutely.
startups valued at $1 billion or more. She called them “unicorns.”
cherry-picking data wasn’t good science.
The image of the reclusive, ascetic young woman Parloff had been sold on had overnight given way to that of the ubiquitous celebrity.
As far as he was concerned, the fairy tale was real.
“Do or do not. There is no try.”
Theranos was breaking the law.
“The way Theranos is operating is like trying to build a bus while you’re driving the bus. Someone is going to get killed.”
“I’d be less surprised if they told us they were time travelers who came back from the twenty-seventh century than if they told us they cracked that nut,”
What we were doing was the journalistic version of la mattanza,
its findings suggested the Edisons’ results were no better than guesswork.
“Sympathy for the Devil” by the Rolling Stones was playing on the public announcement system, a choice of music that didn’t seem like a coincidence.
“You hurt people,”
none of the miniLab’s various components were novel. All Theranos had done was make them smaller and pack them into one box,
fake-it-until-you-make-it culture,
“We never took any votes at Theranos. It was pointless. Elizabeth was going to decide whatever she decided.”
Her ambition was voracious and it brooked no interference. If there was collateral damage on her way to riches and fame, so be it.
