nikitabier: Elizabeth Holmes was a product of the TED Talk entrepreneur era, not an outlier
nikitabier · x · 2026-10-18
nikitabier argues Elizabeth Holmes' rise is largely explained by her era: between 2011-2015, after The Social Network, an entire apparatus celebrated "child prodigy" founders—college accelerators, young entrepreneur orgs. He says he watched hard-tech founders present fraudulent products with faked studies at conferences, excused by adults as "faking it 'til you make it." Holmes rode that wave best, and got caught only when the culture sobered up—while still running the same playbook in the most scrutinized field, medical tech.
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