If the two companies (Theranos and Yahoo) are in the same category, it's not because their descents have anything in common--it's just morbid curiosity around the mechanisms by which they descended. There's a bit of mystery that people want to examine if only to learn to pick up warning signs in other companies, employers, or investments.
With Yahoo, it seems like it's simple mismanagement and lack of strategy/vision after concrete success. There doesn't seem to be much mystery there other than speculation on what a leader can do to prevent a fall.
With Theranos, there's a little more mystery: from the dramatic standpoint, it's already gone from being a "Silicon Valley" spoof ("Pricks"[1]), to an upcoming JLaw screenplay[2] and now seems to be entering tragic opera territory. Is it fraud? Or is it "Moby Dick" set to music?
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If the two companies (Theranos and Yahoo) are in the same category, it's not because their descents have anything in common--it's just morbid curiosity around the mechanisms by which they descended. There's a bit of mystery that people want to examine if only to learn to pick up warning signs in other companies, employers, or investments.
With Yahoo, it seems like it's simple mismanagement and lack of strategy/vision after concrete success. There doesn't seem to be much mystery there other than speculation on what a leader can do to prevent a fall.
With Theranos, there's a little more mystery: from the dramatic standpoint, it's already gone from being a "Silicon Valley" spoof ("Pricks"[1]), to an upcoming JLaw screenplay[2] and now seems to be entering tragic opera territory. Is it fraud? Or is it "Moby Dick" set to music?
[1] http://www.pricks.com/
[2] http://www.vanityfair.com/news/2016/06/jennifer-lawrence-will-star-as-elizabeth-holmes-in-a-movie-about-theranos