liar and a con artist, a Bernie Madoff wannabe? Here I speculate, but I don’t think so—or at least she didn’t start out that way. I think her fatal flaw was an obsession with early success and the impatience that goes with it. When Theranos didn’t succeed on her magical schedule, she didn’t stop to fix the technology but rather doubled down on her young genius narrative, her TED talks, her private
