{"id":2655,"date":"2021-08-30T05:36:19","date_gmt":"2021-08-30T03:36:19","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/costops.com\/index.php\/2021\/08\/30\/selling-a-promise-what-silicon-valley-learned-from-the-fall-of-theranos\/"},"modified":"2021-08-30T05:36:19","modified_gmt":"2021-08-30T03:36:19","slug":"selling-a-promise-what-silicon-valley-learned-from-the-fall-of-theranos","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/costops.com\/index.php\/2021\/08\/30\/selling-a-promise-what-silicon-valley-learned-from-the-fall-of-theranos\/","title":{"rendered":"\u2018Selling a promise\u2019: what Silicon Valley learned from the fall of Theranos"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>The company\u2019s collapse has changed the startup environment, but some say the industry still hasn\u2019t faced a \u2018true reckoning\u2019<\/p>\n<p>A charismatic young leader, billions of dollars in valuations and a technology that promised to change the world but failed to deliver: the meteoric rise and fantastic fall of the medical tech startup Theranos has been seen by many as an indictment of the hype-train attitude of Silicon Valley.<\/p>\n<p>Nearly 20 years after Theranos\u2019s launch, its CEO, Elizabeth Holmes, is headed to trial, charged with defrauding clients and investors. Silicon Valley is facing a public that\u2019s wary of its methods and intentions \u2013 but the verdict is still out on whether startup culture has fundamentally changed.<\/p>\n<p> <a href=\"https:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/technology\/2021\/aug\/30\/elizabeth-holmes-trial-theranos-silicon-valley\">Continue reading&#8230;<\/a><br \/>\n<img src=\"https:\/\/i.guim.co.uk\/img\/media\/81bf09d4ee8c09424fade96ba0f5edf4a1ffca0b\/0_40_3000_1800\/master\/3000.jpg?width=140&amp;quality=85&amp;auto=format&amp;fit=max&amp;s=cf6ddace39ecfacff073b729a8e3bd44\" title=\"\u2018Selling a promise\u2019: what Silicon Valley learned from the fall of Theranos\" \/>The company\u2019s collapse has changed the startup environment, but some say the industry still hasn\u2019t faced a \u2018true reckoning\u2019<br \/>\nA charismatic young leader, billions of dollars in valuations and a technology that promised to change the world but failed to deliver: the meteoric rise and fantastic fall of the medical tech startup Theranos has been seen by many as an indictment of the hype-train attitude of Silicon Valley.<br \/>\nNearly 20 years after Theranos\u2019s launch, its CEO, Elizabeth Holmes, is headed to trial, charged with defrauding clients and investors. Silicon Valley is facing a public that\u2019s wary of its methods and intentions \u2013 but the verdict is still out on whether startup culture has fundamentally changed. Continue reading&#8230;Technology | The Guardian<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The company\u2019s collapse has changed the startup environment, but some say the industry still hasn\u2019t faced a \u2018true reckoning\u2019 A charismatic young leader, billions of dollars in valuations and a technology that promised to change the world but failed to deliver: the meteoric rise and fantastic fall of the medical tech startup Theranos has been &hellip;<\/p>\n<p class=\"read-more\"> <a class=\"\" href=\"http:\/\/costops.com\/index.php\/2021\/08\/30\/selling-a-promise-what-silicon-valley-learned-from-the-fall-of-theranos\/\"> <span class=\"screen-reader-text\">\u2018Selling a promise\u2019: what Silicon Valley learned from the fall of Theranos<\/span> Read More &raquo;<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":0,"featured_media":2656,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":[],"categories":[1],"tags":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/costops.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2655"}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/costops.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/costops.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/costops.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=2655"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"http:\/\/costops.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2655\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/costops.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/2656"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/costops.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=2655"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/costops.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=2655"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/costops.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=2655"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}