She is not scientifically brilliant.
I think she is just an extremely highly functioning sociopath- narcissist. She has a very keen ability to target exactly what people want to hear.
Her family is weathly and well-c0nnected in the SF Bay area venture capital arena. She first convinced a venture capital friend of the family to invest in her idea and once she had his stamp of approval, other all-to-eager investors were easy to convince with a bit of science-y talk and her " blonde female Steve Jobs persona"
She was essentially a salesperson with a very clever persona and method. The technology she was trying to sell is not new at all, but she was able to convince unsophisticated investors that it was AND that her new ideas would sidestep the real deep technical issues that make microsampling and hyperintensification not feasible on a general level for testing.
If she had been less skilled as a liar and manipulator, she would have been exposed very much earlier. But she was very calculating in only putting on her board very famous rich people with a minimum of analytical scientific research thinking. They were more skillled in political connections. Many think her original product rollout was intended for the military to buy the technology for field testing of miliary personnel worldwide, and bypass the commercial laboratory industry that has very rigorous standards that her technology could not pass. Indeed, she tried to tell Federal Laboratory Regulators that she was just marketing a new device, which bypasses many tough regulations, rather than a new technology.
She was extremely calculating in what she did. And at the end she's just a huge fraud that entangled many powerful people that don't want their names drug through the courts for being the overeager simpletons they really were.
I think she is just an extremely highly functioning sociopath- narcissist. She has a very keen ability to target exactly what people want to hear.
Her family is weathly and well-c0nnected in the SF Bay area venture capital arena. She first convinced a venture capital friend of the family to invest in her idea and once she had his stamp of approval, other all-to-eager investors were easy to convince with a bit of science-y talk and her " blonde female Steve Jobs persona"
She was essentially a salesperson with a very clever persona and method. The technology she was trying to sell is not new at all, but she was able to convince unsophisticated investors that it was AND that her new ideas would sidestep the real deep technical issues that make microsampling and hyperintensification not feasible on a general level for testing.
If she had been less skilled as a liar and manipulator, she would have been exposed very much earlier. But she was very calculating in only putting on her board very famous rich people with a minimum of analytical scientific research thinking. They were more skillled in political connections. Many think her original product rollout was intended for the military to buy the technology for field testing of miliary personnel worldwide, and bypass the commercial laboratory industry that has very rigorous standards that her technology could not pass. Indeed, she tried to tell Federal Laboratory Regulators that she was just marketing a new device, which bypasses many tough regulations, rather than a new technology.
She was extremely calculating in what she did. And at the end she's just a huge fraud that entangled many powerful people that don't want their names drug through the courts for being the overeager simpletons they really were.
