Ok...I sort of saw reason to your first comment in regards to article after reading it, but I had to login and point out that this comment sounded hypocritical to me.<p>First &quot;business&quot; has no concept of &quot;ethics&quot;.  This is one of the classic market externalities which leads to non-pareto-optimal outcomes.<p>Second, the &quot;culture&quot; doesn&#x27;t just reward &quot;hyperbole and fraudulent misrepresentation of business success.&quot;  If we take your statement at face value, there would be no venture capital firms because they would all be throwing away their money, without any return, until they ran out.<p>The unfortunate truth is that there _is_ money to be made with Silicon Valley type investment.  There _are_ economic inefficiencies which lead to undesirable market outcomes, but it&#x27;s not because venture capitalists are just throwing money away for _no_ reason.<p>And finally, Theranos appears (at least to me) to be an exception rather than a rule.  And while I don&#x27;t agree with everything the article says or the way it says it, I think there are a few important takeaways.<p>Theranos was able to get funding because of who they knew...it calls into question whether or not they would have been able to get funding (or the amount they did) if they had been just another start up _without_ connections.  It documents the times Theranos was _denied_ funding by Silicon Valley venture capital when they tried to obtain funding the traditional way.<p>It also points out the disproportionate amount of media coverage they had and questions whether it had a contributory role to Theranos&#x27; rocket-like trajectory.  Heck, I would bet many people who use&#x2F;rely on our software have never heard of my start-up, we hardly get covered in the media.  In general I think the start-ups that get large amounts of media coverage are exceptions to the general rule.<p>Anyway, sorry for the long comment, and I don&#x27;t want to take away from the fact that there ARE problems with Silicon Valley and business regulation in America in general.