No. It's one thing to say "My company is going to change the world" or "I am the best president of all time". It's different to repeatedly make a claim that is verifiably untrue, like "I have perfected cold fusion" or "I have a cure for all forms of cancer". The average startup founder doesn't do this, no sane person does this.
> "The saddest thing of it all to me is that she was onto something, people are having success with her ideas today."
This is a very poorly informed statement. Who bought the valuable IP that Theranos spent hundreds of millions of dollars developing? No one is "having success with her ideas" because the ideas didn't exist. That's why she's going to prison
Exactly. Many of her ideas are physically impossible because there is good evidence capillary blood isn't homogeneous enough to give accurate results for quantitative tests at the volumes Holmes was touting.
> "The saddest thing of it all to me is that she was onto something, people are having success with her ideas today."
This is a very poorly informed statement. Who bought the valuable IP that Theranos spent hundreds of millions of dollars developing? No one is "having success with her ideas" because the ideas didn't exist. That's why she's going to prison