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...So much money was being tossed about that we ended up with disasters such as WeWork and Theranos. Uber embodied an extreme version of a prevalent business model and culture....
...The Playlist, a new “fictionalised” series about the creation of music streaming service Spotify, becomes the fourth drama this year to tell the story of an upstart start-up, following The Dropout (about Theranos...
...Charismatic founders, the stories they tell and how well they tell them are under more scrutiny in the post-Theranos, post-WeWork era....
...this episode on FT.com https://www.ft.com/content/7344543b-aefa-4715-8494-7c92e1e531f2 A court heard opening arguments in the case against the founder of the failed blood-testing technology start-up Theranos...
...Heather King, formerly a top lawyer for Theranos, has left her partnership at Boies Schiller Flexner in San Francisco, per Bloomberg Law....
...The book Bad Blood, which I really enjoyed, which was the inside story of the whole Theranos scandal....
...If a company like Uber, if a company like Theranos when it existed, if a company like Google wanted to go after you, it’s not hard for them to do it....
...A number of ex-employees at Theranos, the fraudulent blood-testing company, did not speak up for fear of legal consequences....
...Elizabeth Holmes describes Theranos mission to jurors The blood-analysis start-up founder accused by US prosecutors of defrauding hundreds of millions of dollars from investors, took the stand in her own...
...We also have a report on the latest evidence in the fraud trial of Elizabeth Holmes, founder of blood-testing start-up Theranos. 3....
...NDAs have now become a central focus of a wave of tech whistleblowers that also includes former Theranos employees Tyler Shultz and Erika Cheung, one-time Google computer scientist Timnit Gebru and Frances...
...In the US, PC makers Dell and HP Inc have quarterly results. Friday: Black Friday always eclipses Cyber Monday online, but a major strike is planned by a group calling itself “Make Amazon Pay”....
...financial services chief (FT) Continental rules out deeper job cuts over electric car shake-up (FT) Japanese retail investors give shares in toaster maker 88% pop (FT) Holmes says her wealth has no place in Theranos...
...The third title on my list that went on to win, in 2018, is John Carreyrou’s Bad Blood, the stranger-than-fiction account of Theranos, the blood analysis start-up that went sour for Elizabeth Holmes, its...
...entrepreneur Whether you prefer to style her the youngest self-made billionaire on earth or Gen Z’s first billionaire, the 22-year-old founder of Kylie Cosmetics sold a majority stake in her firm to Coty Inc...
...The first tweet that comes up for Alphaville spuriously compares Theranos-founder Elizabeth Holmes and Elon Musk....
...And it gave the green light to a series starring Kate McKinnon as Elizabeth Holmes of Theranos....
...This was a pivotal moment for Theranos....
...HBO executives gathered at a steakhouse in the Time Warner building on Thursday night after the premiere of The Inventor, a documentary investigating the Theranos scandal....
...“Not all investigations necessarily need to get disclosed,” said Reed Kathrein, an attorney at Hagens Berman Sobol Shapiro who has represented shareholders in complaints against Theranos, the scandal-ridden...
...From the SEC complaint: Theranos raised more than $700 million from late 2013 to 2015 while deceiving investors by making it appear as if Theranos had successfully developed a commercially-ready portable...
...The filmic quality of the Theranos story is unmistakable....
...Theranos, the blood-testing company charged with “ massive fraud” by the SEC, was suspected by former worker Tyler Shultz of some sort of surveillance, according to the WSJ....
...(Theranos settled a civil case brought by the US regulator without admitting or denying wrongdoing.) A grey area still exists, though, which entrepreneurs will describe if pressed....
...Along with Spotify, Dropbox and Theranos — the blood-testing start-up with a wonder technology that turned out not to be so wonderful after all — Snap was among the 10 most valuable private companies when...
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