If anyone is interested in a bet...
I'm throwing down paychecks that they got rid of the wrong 40%.
Theranos axes 40% of staff
Panic-stricken blood testing company Theranos is shutting down its two testing labs, with the loss of 40 per cent of its staff. The decision was made by CEO Elizabeth Holmes, who holds a controlling stake in the company, after she was faced with a ban on running testing facilities over a long list of failings at the company's …
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Thursday 6th October 2016 20:05 GMT John Gamble
Re: If anyone is interested in a bet...
Considering that there's no "right" forty per cent to hang on to, I'm not sure how to decide the bet.
The company's got nothing of value, and no one can save it.
Interesting discussion of culpability here in the Vanity Fair article
(I like the quote taken from the New Yorker interview: "a chemistry is performed so that a chemical reaction occurs and generates a signal from the chemical interaction with the sample, which is translated into a result, which is then reviewed by certified laboratory personnel.").
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