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0 pointsabakker7y ago0 comments

Arguably, the big deals and optimism indicate that there is a lot of pent up demand for successful things, and people are willing to take some risk to get solutions. It’s not all doom and gloom, solutions just have to work.

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sk5t7y ago

Conversely, I read Theranos's progress as evidence of cynical bets that the government/military could likely be directed into pumping billions of USD into the company regardless of its merit.

abakkerOP7y ago

You could certainly draw that conclusion from its original board. I did as well. Still, I think the point stands that people want healthcare to work, and will pay for it. It just so happens that it takes a lot of effort to improve the system since what we have is pretty good. (Not to say it doesn’t have problems)

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sk5t7y ago

Conversely, I read Theranos's progress as evidence of cynical bets that the government/military could likely be directed into pumping billions of USD into the company regardless of its merit.

abakkerOP7y ago

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