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I was a Theranos whistleblower. Here's what I think Elizabeth Holmes is up to

Elizabeth Holmes had more resources, talent, and opportunity than most founders will ever see — and she blew it. Now, writes Theranos whistleblower Tyler Shultz, she seems to be trying again.

The very first time I met her, Elizabeth told my grandfather, George Shultz (who served in the Cabinet in the Nixon and Reagan administrations and became a member of the Theranos board), and then-Sen. Dianne Feinstein that Quest and LabCorp would eventually try to take her down. Similarly, I suspect that Haemanthus’ purpose is not to build a product that will improve the lives of people (or their pets — materials for potential investors say that they plan to start with veterinary medicine). Over the past few years a number of people have reached out to me saying they’ve invented “the Theranos that works,” and several of them have concepts similar to this: apply AI to a mountain of noise and get a thousand test results.

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