Professor shares 2015 chat logs showing he smelled a rat at Theranos before the exposé
vishalmisra · x · 2026-10-19
Researcher Vishal Misra shares his Elizabeth Holmes story — with WhatsApp logs dated Oct 16, 2015 as receipts.
Timeline: at the IIT Global Summit in Santa Clara in July 2015 he watched Holmes' keynote and found it 'awful — obviously fake voice and persona.' Having never heard of Theranos, he looked it up and immediately smelled a rat. In the chat he noted the company had 'all these high profile board members — but very little detail on how it actually became a 9 billion dollar company,' no product details, and an awful keynote. Weeks later Carreyrou's exposé dropped in October, and he sent his friend the biggest 'SEE!!!' ever.
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