![]() ![]() is a camera company.” or Dropbox’s S-1 mission statement: “ Unleash the world’s creative energy by designing a more enlightened way of working.” These statements ignore what these businesses fundamentally do - advertising and storage. ![]() Think about Snap’s famous declaration, “ Snap Inc. ![]() In today’s day of fake technology marketing, it’s easy for messaging to slowly take over a company if left unchecked. There is something so human about wanting to believe there are no limits to technology. It was just a 19-year-old talking who’d taken one course in microfluidics, and she thought she was gonna make something of it.” It was debunked by almost every scientist as wild fantasy even prior to its commercial use and subsequent fall from grace. Stanford professor Phyllis Gardener even told Elizabeth Holmes (Theranos’ founder/CEO) early-on that an early patch-like design of the product would never work: “ just kind of blinked and nodded and left. But they didn’t work and never had a shot to work. Theranos’ Edison and miniLab blood analyzers were supposed to tell you everything you could ever want to know about your blood. Sometimes technology sounds too good to be true. ![]()
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