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Alyssa B. Bereznak

Alyssa B. Bereznak

Oct 16, 2026

2:18
[laughs]
2:18
Right.
2:19
Yeah.
2:19
She was the founder and CEO of Theranos, um, which was a health tech company that created the device called the Edison.
2:26
The Edison, they claimed, could do a wide range of medical tests with only a small finger prick's worth of blood, and the idea is you could eliminate the burden of needles and the pain of taking a lot of blood out.
2:40
Um, those claims led the company to be valued at something like $9 billion at the, at the height of its hype.

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12:40
And he, and that may have really disastrous consequences for how his audience might receive him or his public image.

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