If you read the interviews of a lot of investors, many of them mention they inve...

Ayraa on Oct 11, 2016 | parent | context | favorite | on: Major Investor Sues Theranos

If you read the interviews of a lot of investors, many of them mention they invested because they believed so strongly in the founder. Afterwards, when their crazy concept works (example: Musk with SpaceX), these founders are lauded a visionary. When their concept fails (as is the case with Homles and Theranos), these founders are branded a fraudster.

taeric on Oct 11, 2016 [–]

To be fair... It isn't that the idea failed. It is that the failures were misrepresented. Badly.