{"id":1161,"date":"2018-06-18T16:47:07","date_gmt":"2018-06-18T16:47:07","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/dereklidow.com\/?p=1161"},"modified":"2018-10-23T17:03:58","modified_gmt":"2018-10-23T17:03:58","slug":"theranos-scandal-what-happens-when-you-misunderstand-steve-jobs","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/dereklidow.com\/theranos-scandal-what-happens-when-you-misunderstand-steve-jobs\/","title":{"rendered":"The Theranos Scandal: What Happens When You Misunderstand Steve Jobs"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>We\u2019ve long known that Elizabeth Holmes was in\u00a0<a href=\"https:\/\/www.forbes.com\/sites\/matthewherper\/2018\/03\/14\/sec-elizabeth-holmes-theranos-fraud\/#55d9e50718f3\" target=\"_self\">trouble<\/a>, and last Friday federal prosecutors brought criminal charges against the founder of Theranos for defrauding investors and deceiving patients and doctors. In\u00a0<em>Bad Blood: Secrets and Lies in a Silicon Valley Startup<\/em>, two-time Pulitzer Prize winner John Carreyrou, who two and a half\u00a0years ago first raised\u00a0<a href=\"https:\/\/www.wsj.com\/articles\/theranos-has-struggled-with-blood-tests-1444881901\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" data-ga-track=\"ExternalLink:https:\/\/www.wsj.com\/articles\/theranos-has-struggled-with-blood-tests-1444881901\">questions<\/a>\u00a0about the blood testing company\u2019s technology, plumbs the appalling depth of Holmes\u2019 deceptions. One of the greatest of those deceptions\u2014or was it a delusion?\u2014was\u00a0<a href=\"https:\/\/www.cbsnews.com\/video\/elizabeth-holmes-steve-jobs-is-an-incredible-symbol-of-whats-possible\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" data-ga-track=\"ExternalLink:https:\/\/www.cbsnews.com\/video\/elizabeth-holmes-steve-jobs-is-an-incredible-symbol-of-whats-possible\/\">Holmes\u2019 portrayal of herself<\/a>\u00a0as the next Steve Jobs&#8230;<\/p>\n<p><a class=\"secondary button\" href=\"https:\/\/www.forbes.com\/sites\/dereklidow\/2018\/06\/18\/the-theranos-scandal-what-happens-when-you-misunderstand-steve-jobs\/#1b193a4e7b42\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">More<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"We\u2019ve long known that Elizabeth Holmes was in\u00a0trouble, and last Friday federal prosecutors brought criminal charges against the founder of Theranos for defrauding investors and deceiving patients and doctors. In\u00a0Bad Blood: Secrets and Lies in a Silicon Valley Startup, two-time Pulitzer Prize winner John Carreyrou, who two and a half\u00a0years ago first raised\u00a0questions\u00a0about the blood&hellip;","protected":false},"author":3,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"link","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[2],"tags":[],"acf":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/dereklidow.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1161"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/dereklidow.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/dereklidow.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/dereklidow.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/3"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/dereklidow.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=1161"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/dereklidow.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1161\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/dereklidow.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1161"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/dereklidow.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1161"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/dereklidow.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1161"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}