Discussion about a month ago <a href="https:&#x2F;&#x2F;news.ycombinator.com&#x2F;item?id=10765562" rel="nofollow">https:&#x2F;&#x2F;news.ycombinator.com&#x2F;item?id=10765562</a><p>For the record, I&#x27;m pretty sure Theranos is up to something very shady. Spend a couple hours watching just interviews with Holmes and reading the glassdoor reviews by current and former employees and you&#x27;ll quickly start to piece together some pretty sketchy stuff.<p>Their glassdoor profile is full of some of the most obviously fake reviews I&#x27;ve ever seen, I wouldn&#x27;t at all be surprised if about half of them were written by Holmes herself instead of running the company.<p><a href="https:&#x2F;&#x2F;www.glassdoor.com&#x2F;Reviews&#x2F;Theranos-Reviews-E248889.htm?sort.sortType=RD&amp;sort.ascending=false&amp;filter.employmentStatus=REGULAR&amp;filter.employmentStatus=PART_TIME&amp;filter.employmentStatus=UNKNOWN" rel="nofollow">https:&#x2F;&#x2F;www.glassdoor.com&#x2F;Reviews&#x2F;Theranos-Reviews-E248889.h...</a><p>Here&#x27;s what I wrote on this about a month ago. <a href="https:&#x2F;&#x2F;news.ycombinator.com&#x2F;item?id=10765996" rel="nofollow">https:&#x2F;&#x2F;news.ycombinator.com&#x2F;item?id=10765996</a><p>I&#x27;ve since spent some time looking into the company and asking some people I know in the industry about the company and the opinion seems to run from &quot;scam&quot; to &quot;gross ineptitude&quot;.<p>Holmes&#x27; answers to simple questions are about as mealy mouthed as I&#x27;ve ever heard outside of Congress.
e.g. <a href="https:&#x2F;&#x2F;www.youtube.com&#x2F;watch?v=MBs-oj7U-bo" rel="nofollow">https:&#x2F;&#x2F;www.youtube.com&#x2F;watch?v=MBs-oj7U-bo</a><p>Something smells really bad about Theranos and it&#x27;s probably going to ruin a lot of people&#x27;s careers while a select few are going to walk away with a nice percentage of the VC money in the end. The story on this will probably get caught up in post-Theranos litigation for many many years and I&#x27;ll probably be retired long before the whole story is known.<p>The real problem is trying to ascertain motive. Money seems too easy for Holmes to have been working at it for so long. But it could be that simple.