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Episode 37: Theranos
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Theranos promised to revolutionize healthcare with a single drop of blood and became one of the most infamous failures in biotech history.
In this episode, we trace the full rise and fall of Elizabeth Holmes and Theranos, from its founding in 2003 to its dramatic collapse and criminal convictions nearly two decades later. We explore how ambition, secrecy, and Silicon Valley mythology allowed unproven science to scale into a $9 billion company, how powerful board members and investors failed to ask the right questions, and how whistleblowers and investigative journalism…
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