A decade is very reasonable for intentionally, knowingly committing hundreds of millions of dollars worth of fraud and attempting to sustain it across many years of time.
She's little more than a highly skilled, pathological con-artist that worked over a very affluent system (Silicon Valley primarily).
It's not odd how vilified she has become. She appears to be severely deranged, has shown zero remorse for the crimes she committed, and has tried every trick in the bag to try to get out of taking responsibility legally for what she did.
> She faked it until she (didn't) make it--a strategy praised in other startup narratives.
That is not what she did. Holmes committed outright financial fraud by lying to - intentionally misleading - the investors and employees in just about the most epic way you could. She attempted to cover it up repeatedly, keeping the extent of their failures even from the board members whenever possible.
And last but not least, it's the highly regulated healthcare field (everyone here grasps the difference), not a little text search engine (eg Excite was a famous example of faking it until you make it during the dotcom bubble, they bid on a Netscape search deal, for promotion of their service, before they had the money to pay for it, on the basis that they could raise the money if they had the deal; however it's not usually a crime to commit to buy something before you have the money to do so).
She's little more than a highly skilled, pathological con-artist that worked over a very affluent system (Silicon Valley primarily).
It's not odd how vilified she has become. She appears to be severely deranged, has shown zero remorse for the crimes she committed, and has tried every trick in the bag to try to get out of taking responsibility legally for what she did.
> She faked it until she (didn't) make it--a strategy praised in other startup narratives.
That is not what she did. Holmes committed outright financial fraud by lying to - intentionally misleading - the investors and employees in just about the most epic way you could. She attempted to cover it up repeatedly, keeping the extent of their failures even from the board members whenever possible.
And last but not least, it's the highly regulated healthcare field (everyone here grasps the difference), not a little text search engine (eg Excite was a famous example of faking it until you make it during the dotcom bubble, they bid on a Netscape search deal, for promotion of their service, before they had the money to pay for it, on the basis that they could raise the money if they had the deal; however it's not usually a crime to commit to buy something before you have the money to do so).