Theranos founder Elizabeth Holmes is presently serving 11 years in jail for defrauding traders together with her scam-laden blood testing start-up. Her associate, with whom she shares two youngsters, is presently attempting to lift $50 million for a blood testing start-up.
Regardless of the web’s preliminary response that it should be satire or pretend…nope. This story may be very actual and reported within the Tony pages of the New York Occasions. Billy Evans’ firm is known as Haemanthus — a flower also referred to as the blood lily — and payments itself as “the way forward for diagnostics” with “a radically new method to well being testing,” the Occasions reported. That sounds, properly, just about precisely like Theranos.
You may surprise why Evans, described by the Occasions as an inheritor to a lodge fortune, needs to get into blood-testing of all companies. And albeit, your guess is nearly as good as mine. Perhaps as a result of technically it is the household enterprise?
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Citing unnamed sources, NPR reported Evans has “raised tens of millions” to this point, however principally “amongst mates, household and different supporters.” The corporate reportedly plans to start testing pets for ailments earlier than shifting on to folks.
The web merely could not consider this entire story was actual. One person on Bluesky poking enjoyable on the headline needed to make clear that no, the story was neither AI nor a joke.
The web, naturally, additionally had a number of jokes about Evans’ start-up.
In a time filled with bizarre, unbelievable headlines, it is actually exceptional that the information can nonetheless be stunning.
