A New Look Inside Theranos’ Dysfunctional Corporate Culture
A New Look Inside Theranos’ Dysfunctional Corporate Culture
Science, Spoken · SpokenLayer
May 22, 201826m 9s
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Show Notes
Alan Beam was sitting in his office reviewing lab reports when Theranos CEO and founder Elizabeth Holmes poked her head in and asked him to follow her. She wanted to show him something. They stepped outside the lab into an area of open office space where other employees had gathered. At her signal, a technician pricked a volunteer’s finger, then applied a transparent plastic implement shaped like a miniature rocket to the blood oozing from it. This was the Theranos sample collection device.
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