&gt; they failed because their tech sucked<p>And in the process likely led to harm to their clients. Healthcare is one of those things that you don&#x27;t fuck with, because the failure mode of bad tech isn&#x27;t just that you go out of business and inconvenience a bunch of people, it&#x27;s that you actually cause potentially irreparable damage to people (in Theranos&#x27;s case, by providing incorrect information about people&#x27;s health which they depended on).