<story><title>Walgreen Sues Theranos, Seeks $140 Million in Damages</title><url>http://www.wsj.com/articles/walgreens-seeks-to-recover-140-million-investment-from-theranos-1478642410</url></story><parent_chain><item><author>ryandrake</author><text>Theranos has got to be my favorite tech story of the year, possibly of the decade. There&amp;#x27;s nothing quite as satisfying as the schadenfreude of watching an &amp;quot;elite&amp;quot; who got by for years on charm, connections, hot air and wealth finally get called on their BS and go down in flames so publicly!&lt;p&gt;There are plenty of hard working, talented tech people out there with grit and integrity and even actual products, held back by their lack of deep-pocketed Ivy-league connections. Yet borderline fraud gets funded and gushed over by the press. If there&amp;#x27;s justice in the world, the Theranos drama is a sliver of it.</text></item></parent_chain><comment><author>will_brown</author><text>&amp;gt;There are plenty of hard working, talented tech people out there with grit and integrity and even actual products, held back by their lack of deep-pocketed Ivy-league connections.&lt;p&gt;As someone who launched a side project in the &lt;i&gt;pharmacy&lt;/i&gt; space and closed a 6 month pilot with the World&amp;#x27;s largest company and still can&amp;#x27;t get a YC interview or VC response...I can tell you there is no justice in what happened to Theranos because it doesn&amp;#x27;t make it any easier for those people with actual products, it&amp;#x27;s just business as usual.</text></comment>
<story><title>Walgreen Sues Theranos, Seeks $140 Million in Damages</title><url>http://www.wsj.com/articles/walgreens-seeks-to-recover-140-million-investment-from-theranos-1478642410</url></story><parent_chain><item><author>ryandrake</author><text>Theranos has got to be my favorite tech story of the year, possibly of the decade. There&amp;#x27;s nothing quite as satisfying as the schadenfreude of watching an &amp;quot;elite&amp;quot; who got by for years on charm, connections, hot air and wealth finally get called on their BS and go down in flames so publicly!&lt;p&gt;There are plenty of hard working, talented tech people out there with grit and integrity and even actual products, held back by their lack of deep-pocketed Ivy-league connections. Yet borderline fraud gets funded and gushed over by the press. If there&amp;#x27;s justice in the world, the Theranos drama is a sliver of it.</text></item></parent_chain><comment><author>paulcole</author><text>Luckily, there&amp;#x27;s still the plucky disruptive group over at Soylent to keep us entertained.</text></comment>