Opinion | The Sexism That Led to the Elizabeth Holmes Trial - The New York Times
Ms. Pao is a tech investor and chief executive of Project Include, a diversity, equity and inclusion nonprofit. She is the author of "Reset: My Fight for Inclusion and Lasting Change," about her lawsuit against a venture capital firm and her experience running the technology company Reddit.
The op-ed is shit. Pao throws in whataboutism and she doesn't even bother to explain how Holmes isn't actually a criminal and a con artist.
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Elizabeth Anne Holmes (born February 3, 1984) is an American former businesswoman who was the founder and chief executive of Theranos, a now-defunct health technology company. Theranos soared in valuation after the company claimed to have revolutionized blood testing by developing testing methods that could use surprisingly small volumes of blood, such as from a fingerprick. By 2015, Forbes had named Holmes the youngest and wealthiest self-made female billionaire in America on the basis of a $9-billion valuation of her company. The next year, following revelations of potential fraud about Theranos's claims, Forbes had revised its published estimate of Holmes's net worth to zero, and Fortune had named her one of the "World's Most Disappointing Leaders".
Theranos was scamming established capital. The other examples were either circumventing employment laws, mistreating employees or trying to become landlords.
I have no idea what the difference could be other than the gender. Sure beats me.
Damn. I thought Pao was alright, because she criticized reddit informally associating with Ghislaine Maxwell, and was forced out of reddit after she took the blame for making it more inclusive, while the new CEO kept all her changes and continued down the same path, only worse.
I love how she tries to argue that 70 people dying from Juuls is comparable to the Uber, WeWork, and Theranos shenanigans.
um I think a bunch of people were given faulty tests by Theranos partnership with Walgreens? causing bad medical decisions. I dunno specifically because I am only one chapter into Bad Blood but that's what I remember from the Netflix doc
"In January 2016, the Centers for Medicare and Medicaid Services (CMS) sent a letter to Theranos based on an inspection of its Newark, California lab in 2015, reporting that the facility caused "immediate jeopardy to patient health and safety" due to a test to determine the correct dose of the blood-thinning drug warfarin." Giving people fraudulent medical tests based on imaginary non-existent technology, doesn't get much sicker than that.
Ellen Pao was :reddit-logo:'s greatest hope. lmao. The only Reddit executive I remember who could ban something like r/c**ntown and r/fatpeoplehate without bothsidesing the left.
Can't wait for "The sexism that led to the Ghislaine Maxwell trials".
Weren't most of the early investors in Theranos horny old men?
I'm pretty sure they were all part of the Hoover Institute too. I'm glad she ripped them off.
Edit: My initial statement wasn't strong enough. I should have said I offer Elizabeth Holmes my uncritical support.
when she's right, she's right. they hate to see a girlboss winning
They lied about medical blood test results of everyday people, including those who were already sick.
Not hurting everyday people by lying about medical info would have been cool.
It's cool she scammed a bunch of dip shit ghouls but she can burn in hell with the rest of em.
I'm guessing she's fully buying into Holmes's bullshit defense where she's trying to pin everything on her male second-in-command (or w/e position he was)?
