AgLA06 said:

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I don't get the voice callout.

I know a lot of people that have different voices or laughs when trying to be "professional" for presentations or phone calls.

Hell, most teachers have their "teacher voice" when teaching.

It's less about what they are trying to project and more about their own confidence. Especially if they don't like speaking to people.

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Boy, I do. Have you heard it? She dropped her voice significantly. It's bizarre.

What Holmes did is wayyyy different than changing to a "teaching voice" or a "phone voice".

Diggity said:

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and because...of course

https://www.nytimes.com/2021/09/15/opinion/elizabeth-holmes-trial-sexism.html

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I saw that the other day. I just rolled my eyes. The writer is so far off point.

The last episode of the Bad Blood podcast makes some great points about how Holmes and Balwani thought they were running a tech start up. Larry Ellison, Steve Jobs, and all those guys got away with a lot of sketchy crap when they were building their companies. But computer software and iPhones don't kill people.

Holmes never seemed to understand that a medical device meant to diagnose serious medical conditions is not the same thing as a cell phone. There are even texts between her and Balwani stating that they had a "software problem" when their blood testing machines didn't work. They had no clue about the physics, biology, and biochemistry that goes into medical tests and assays.

damn...guess she needed to breed some future progeny for the benefit of society before getting locked up.

Just further evidence she's a self-absorbed, entitled sociopath. And her husband is an idiot for going along with it.

I watched the Hulu show.

Having worked in a lab I don't understand how she got so far without labs figuring it out.

Or perhaps it never actually got into any labs and the the stock price was all built on no actual sales?

Been awhile since I read the book, but weren't they completely making up the test results? Enough people were in on it to get away with it, I guess?

Quinn said:

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Been awhile since I read the book, but weren't they completely making up the test results? Enough people were in on it to get away with it, I guess?

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Yes thry made up results. But it was a tiny machine, smaller than many lab machines.


In order to actually make money they'd eventually need to sell the machine(actually more of a loan) to sell reagents used

Yep, according to what's been reported, they didn't make up or falsify any results. They just often didn't use the numbers from the machine they invented and ran the tests using conventional test machines instead. They even managed to screw that up, though because when they tried to run the tests on a drop of blood, they had to dilute it so much to get enough sample volume that the results were inaccurate.

They reported wrong/inaccurate numbers but they also sometimes threw out/didn't report report numbers that they knew were bad or wrong. They would report the result as inconclusive instead.

They also never had a working machine that could run the hundreds or thousands of tests on a drop of blood as she claimed.

That's right. I knew they had some deal with Walmart but couldn't remember the details.

Both the family and the family fren-emy had "deep state" connections.

While it's feasible the very accomplished men on the board were conned by a young 20s they wish were their granddaughter ……

I would expect more reporting about this.

Diggity said:

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besides people doing voiceover/ad work, I've never known anyone who changed their voice as strikingly as her.

It's just another example of the lengths she went through in order to project a certain image.

Nobody is suggesting she's guilty solely based on that...it's just unusual.

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Everyone loves a fake British accent

At some point she started purposefully going after investors with no technical background because she knew they wouldn't ask too many questions or try to vet the technology. The DeVos family foundation was specifically targeted for this reason.

I think it was the DeVos family that got swindled. Probably fitting since that's how they made their $

Face Palm. I meant to type DeVos. Juggling too many different things today.

I'm thinking princess Anna was her inspiration.

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Sir Cedric Willingham : How's it going, Your Majesty?
Ralph Jones : Great. We've got nothing in common and she's got a voice like a tuba. If she had her way, we'd have sex on a bed of nails on national television. But at least the party stinks.

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