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She was almost 20 and was told repeatedly by her professors at Stanford that they don't think it would work. If you don't know by the time you're 20 that using
by doingmyting 8y ago
She was almost 20 and was told repeatedly by her professors at Stanford that they don't think it would work. If you don't know by the time you're 20 that using off the shelf machines to do blood tests and telling everyone that you're using some new revolutionary method is fraud, then I dont know what to tell you. And no she didn't start with 200k, she had 6 million in venture capital the very year she started which ballooned to over 400 million.
- Fricken 8y agoThe first investment in Theranos was 6 million dollars? No. She started with $200k from a reputable venture capitalist and that's all it took to get the ball rolling. Nobody was pointing a gun to the heads of the people who invested in Theranos. They were just idiots, is all.