Nothing is more important than the health and well-being of our patients.Elizabeth Holmes
A sociopath is often described as someone with little or no conscience. I'll leave it to the psychologists to decide whether Holmes fits the clinical profile, but there's no question that her moral compass was badly askew.John Carreyrou
To be sure, Holmes was a skilled storyteller. But she was most convincing because she herself had fallen under the spell of her imaginary world.John Carreyrou
But this is not what happened at Theranos. Holmes and Balwani went to extraordinary lengths to perpetuate the ruse. Their tactics not only broke the law but violated all notions of decency and integrity.John Carreyrou
A corporation's culture emanates from the top. If the person leading the company is found to be dishonest, it shouldn't come as a surprise that the entire organization is dishonest.John Carreyrou
The culture at the company was by far the most abnormal I had experienced. After a few months of working at the start up, I started having stress induced recurring dreams of the CEO firing me.Anonymous Employee
Normal people don't behave like that. They don't systematically set out to hurt other people. Even the worst people have a conscience, however warped. But psychopaths don't.John Carreyrou
The ends justified the means. That's all that mattered on the path to disrupt the medical industry with the world’s smallest portable blood-testing machine.John Carreyrou
Medicine's dirty little secret...too many blood tests.Elizabeth Holmes
The real tragedy of Theranos is that it has cast doubt on the whole field of blood diagnostics at the worst possible time.John Carreyrou