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Dana Smith Dutra 🇺🇸 #StandWithJoe 🇺🇸
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From the granddaughter of Fleischmann’s yeast to the daughter of Enron to the CEO of TheranosTheranos Founder Elizabeth Holmes Comes from a Baker's Yeast Empire - VICEhttps://www.vice.com/en_us/article/wjm3eb/theranos-founder-elizabeth-holmes-com
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Elaine 🦉🇮🇨
eiaine
Older examples: Skype/VoIP to bypass FCC, Amazon avoidance of sales tax, Facebook and Section 230, p2p lending. UNPOPULAR OPINION #2: Theranos wasn't a scam, it was simply ahead of its
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the first steven deobald
deobald
on transparency: i was surprised to find that in many commentaries on the whole theranos thing holmes is repeatedly vilified and labeled as a "master manipulator" as if she has
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Elaine 🦉🇮🇨
eiaine
Unpopular opinion: The biggest "tech" breakthroughs in recent years have been nothing more than clever hacks to get around onerous regulation. Eg: Bitcoin, Uber, Airbnb.https://twitter.com/jerrybrito/status/1253020113198088200 Older example
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Benedict Evans
benedictevans
It’s depressing to see a rather good magazine trotting out every lazy and factually incorrect VC trope in the book. Theranos didn’t even raise from VC - that’s a straight
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Ethan Mollick
emollick
While I was reading about Theranos, I kept thinking about how much of the fraud was explained by "Symbolic Action." In a classic paper, Zott & Huy find that founders
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keewa
keewa
Remind: Elon Musk inherited money from his father's apartheid emerald mine, that doesn't mean he's cleverhttps://twitter.com/Independent/status/1259080898219212800 His incredibly expensive cars burst into flames regularly and their custom
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Jordan Schachtel
JordanSchachtel
Prediction: In about 5 years time, we will find out that Moderna is basically Theranos, and everyone will claim it was so obvious. Read some of these stories from the
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John W. B. Rich (Wealthy)
richtechexec
Only in 2020 can a company start up in an old school industry, declare it's a "tech" company just because it is going to make a different type of battery,
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TC, Master of Chart
TESLAcharts
1/ It is good to be Stephane Bancel, CEO of Moderna. He gets to go on @CNBC and pump interim Phase I partial data on a rona vaccine. Let's have
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Jewel4Trump
Q says [they] speak frm secret acnts, burner phones & games but how do [they] decipher msgs to each other?I allowed logical key words guide me as [they] do?I tied
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James Ball
jamesrbuk
Thread (sorry): Real investigative journalism is hard. It takes lots of time, skill and money, and the reports it produces are often complex and take some effort to read.Stories come
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OxfordSceptic
OxfordSceptic
A philosophical thread on $TSLA and $TSLAQ1/ This is a society of enablement. This is not to say society is a uniform entity or that there are no obstacles for
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Minzo
Minzo
I've decided to split my usual end of year best books review into two parts- mid and end of year review- so thread for first half of the year incoming:
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Brooke
brookeandtodd
IMPORTANT THREADS 1. Suspicious Death & Injury - Patternshttps://twitter.com/brookeandtodd/status/1262058656801136645?s=19 2. Plane Crash - HIV - Patterns HIV/AIDS Scientist/Researchers Martin Shkreli - Pharmaceuticals Russia https://t
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Password Hunter02
BenKTallmadge
China, a country who puts millions into concentration camps & harvests their organs, 'highly appreciated' outgoing US defense chief James Mattis - CNNProves that Mad Dog had been a bad
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