What Elizabeth Holmes’ Trial Tells Us About Silicon Valley

By focusing on fraud, the public is missing the real story

DC Palter
Entrepreneurship Handbook
8 min readDec 14, 2021

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Elizabeth Holmes, Founder and CEO of Theranos. Photo by TechCrunch via Wikimedia Commons

I was in the middle of writing a novel about a startup up to no good (To Kill a Unicorn, coming out soon from Pandamoon Publishing) when reports of something fishy at Theranos first appeared in the pages of the Wall Street Journal. So I followed the story closely.

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Entrepreneur, angel investor, startup mentor, sake snob. Author of the Silicon Valley mystery To Kill a Unicorn: https://amzn.to/3sD2SGH