I just want to point out that Theranos is involved in lawsuits with nearly everyone now. Former employees, investors, its pivotal business partner Walgreens, the federal government, state governments and they've threatened legal actions against journalist and news outlets. Their product turned out to be sham. They covered up the evidence. They threatened everyone. They resorted to intimidation tactics. All while people's health were on the line.
Theranos is without a doubt among the worst companies to ever come out of the Bay Area. They're like a real life UNorth (Michael Clayton film). I hope their collapse is complete, utter and thorough. Everything and everyone in their leadership team painted with that brush for the rest of their career.
The WSJ and their journalist John Carreyrou ought to be commended and probably win a pulitzer for their coverage of Theranos.
> Theranos is involved in lawsuits with nearly everyone now.
Good. They were playing games with people's lives. It is one thing to play startup when it is Uber for Dogs and puppy ended up not seeing its friends at the park that day, it is another thing to mess up blood test results.
If someone who got hurt can come forward and wants to press criminal charges, they should get all the support needed. I can understand mistakes happening, but lying and going forward after they knew was abhorent.
Careful, some/most(?) of the lawsuits aren't because of risking patient's lives. They're for things like defrauding investors. They're not somehow more guilty because they also happened to do some other wrong thing at the same time.
I understand and saying maybe there should be some criminal investigations as well. Someone dying or getting injured is not out of the realm of possibility when they had known bad test results and continued anyway.
Theranos is without a doubt among the worst companies to ever come out of the Bay Area. They're like a real life UNorth (Michael Clayton film). I hope their collapse is complete, utter and thorough. Everything and everyone in their leadership team painted with that brush for the rest of their career.
The WSJ and their journalist John Carreyrou ought to be commended and probably win a pulitzer for their coverage of Theranos.