A lot of smart people got taken in by Holmes. I don’t think getting scammed makes him a bad guy.
What makes him a bad guy is that his grandson was an employee at Theranos and one of the first whistleblowers. Schultz not only did not believe him he disowned him for several years.
Only after the government pressed charges did Schultz acknowledge the grandson was right. But the grandson said he has never apologized for his treatment of him.
Holmes scammed many older men who should have known better (Kissinger, Mattis, Channing Robertson, Roger Parloff) but they had two things in mind, I’m going to support “Girl Power” and maybe, just maybe I can get a **** *** too.
You seldom dislike a scammer, just the opposite.
“A lot of smart people got taken in by Holmes”
a lot of SUPPOSEDLY smart people got taken in by Holmes ... mostly CEO types that actually weren’t as smart as they thought they were because most of them were ignorant of pretty much any technology, esp. bio and medical technology, and were impressed by a young, hot, blonde female con artist who was pretty good at tap-dancing while plowing through her pretty power-point presentation ... not a single one thought about looking behind the curtain, or even sending advisers educated in the sciences to look behind the curtain ... Walgreens and Safeway CEOs are among the ones that got taken for the above reasons ...