Anything less than the following is just displaying lack of morality in our whole society:
Elizabeth Holmes and her boyfriend Balwani are absolute psychopaths without remorse or conscience. We should not give them this much attention. I can't help but feel that we are doing something wrong by talking and writing about them, as if they are something special. They should be in jail, and the facts of the case should be made public, and that's it - end of story.
If we portray them in any other way, we are just doing disservice to everyone.
For further reading, Carreyrou's book is OK-ish (can be read in a day) but really - it's a bunch of stories about how psychopaths lie to stay in power. It's a nice book, but in the end we are talking about people that pathologically lie, and even dumber* investors that throw money based on signalling/stories and not facts/prototypes/verification of any kind of anything. That's pretty much it.
Much better literature would be 'Snakes in Suits' and 'Without Conscience', both by Robert Hare, the guy that has created the psychopath checklist (the tool used to clinically diagnose psychopaths, like a psychopath test). I highly recommend both of the books (especially 'Without Conscience'!)
* that's just my opinion: throwing millions without anything close to a prototype that works AT ALL is just something that an imbecile could only do. Goes to show what kind of people hold capital in the millions. Remarkable.
Elizabeth Holmes and her boyfriend Balwani are absolute psychopaths without remorse or conscience. We should not give them this much attention. I can't help but feel that we are doing something wrong by talking and writing about them, as if they are something special. They should be in jail, and the facts of the case should be made public, and that's it - end of story.
If we portray them in any other way, we are just doing disservice to everyone.
For further reading, Carreyrou's book is OK-ish (can be read in a day) but really - it's a bunch of stories about how psychopaths lie to stay in power. It's a nice book, but in the end we are talking about people that pathologically lie, and even dumber* investors that throw money based on signalling/stories and not facts/prototypes/verification of any kind of anything. That's pretty much it.
Much better literature would be 'Snakes in Suits' and 'Without Conscience', both by Robert Hare, the guy that has created the psychopath checklist (the tool used to clinically diagnose psychopaths, like a psychopath test). I highly recommend both of the books (especially 'Without Conscience'!)
* that's just my opinion: throwing millions without anything close to a prototype that works AT ALL is just something that an imbecile could only do. Goes to show what kind of people hold capital in the millions. Remarkable.