Is This Really the End of Faking It in Silicon Valley?

Fraud is an inevitable outcome of the venture funding system

DC Palter
Entrepreneurship Handbook
7 min readApr 28, 2023

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Last week the NY Times declared an end to Faking It In Silicon Valley.

The impetus for declaring the end of an ignominious era was:

  • Elizabeth Holmes, the founder and convicted chief fraudster of Theranos finally ordered…

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