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ZSMICHAEL
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posted March 29, 2019 01:13 PM
I found it interesting. Not your typical scam artist. She certainly had assembled an impressive Board of Directors with Henry Kissinger, George Schultz, General Mattis and others. What are your thoughts?
 
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posted March 29, 2019 06:28 PMHide Post
My thought's are...She's an amazing con artist and a BIG WEIRDO.


If it won't matter in 5 years don't give it more than 5 minutes.

 
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posted March 29, 2019 09:59 PMHide Post
She's certainly easy on the eyes, but when I heard her talk, I was not impressed. She sounds like an awkward teenage girl who has difficulties expressing herself. Her voice is very coarse and unpolished. The intelligence is evident, but the emotion, or empathy didn't match.

How on earth she was able to persuade all these distinguished men to get onboard this scheme, I will never understand.
 
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posted March 30, 2019 08:12 AMHide Post
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When Elizabeth Holmes was a freshman at Stanford University, she went home for winter break, and, in a ritual familiar to many elite college students of a particular background, sat around the table with her family to muse about her many options. During Christmas dinner, her father Christian Holmes IV, a former executive at Enron, wrote the letters “Ph.D.” on a piece of paper, folded it into a paper airplane, and sent it aloft. “No Dad,” Holmes replied. “I want to make money.”
 
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cyberiad
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posted March 30, 2019 09:09 AMHide Post
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Originally posted by Rawny:
How on earth she was able to persuade all these distinguished men to get onboard this scheme, I will never understand.


Me neither. The machines they made were bolted together from existing equipment and never worked at all the way they said they were supposed to and they faked results for years using real lab test machines. An elaborate con. Some people who knew what they were talking about questioned what they were doing but everyone essentially ignored them. And, based on what I've read, both she and her partner Sunny were total assholes. I can't believe anyone worked for them for more than a day or two (a lot of people quit very soon after joining the company).
 
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posted March 31, 2019 12:12 AMHide Post
I caught it as well, thought her to be a bit of a sociopath. Only concerned for herself, no ethical/moral issues with fraud and deceit.

Devoid of emotion, but able to fake it to achieve her goals.





What part of "...Shall not be infringed" don't you understand???

 
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