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The Blood Unicorn Theranos Was Just a Fairy Tale!

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Building a startup is often compared to launching a rocket. Many brilliant and staggering ideas are brought into this startup world, some run amazingly well and some require a bit of time. But the world of a start-up is not easy and simple as it sounds. Most of you would have heard about money scams happening around your surrounding or in your country Well, here in this blog we are going to know about a 1.1 billion dollar startup scam. Let's head into it... Theranos is a blood-testing startup that developed devices, which are called "TSPUs" and "miniLabs" that were supposed to be able to do a wide range of laboratory tests on a finger-prick blood sample. It seems like Theranos founder Elizabeth Holmes really wanted to build devices that would actually do these things, and thought she could, and tried to. But it didn't work, and Theranos ran out of time: It talked Walgreens into offering Theranos tests at its stores, 1 but "it became clear to Holmes that...