Mia Freedman
speaker
7,600 appearances
60 recordings
1 series
first heard Jan 2026
last heard 3d ago
Mia Freedman’s voice in public audio — every appearance, attributed to the second.
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She founded a company called Theranos when she was just 19, and she said it was because she hated blood tests.
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And Theranos was founded with the purpose of um finding a way to test hundreds of markers for things like cancer, cholesterol, with just a pinprick instead of a blood test.
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Just one problem.
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Didn't work.
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Not possible.
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Yes.
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He was her romantic partner as well.
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What's also interesting is that um she raised millions and millions and millions of dollars.
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She was in Walmart.
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Walmart rolled it out in stores.
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She had the most incredible um people on her board, like it the most titans of business.
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So she was very charming and there were a lot of very old men who agreed to be on the board, including I'm
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pretty sure Henry Kissinger, you know who a four, you know, exactly.
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Exactly.
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So so she was seen as there was a lot of media coverage of her because she was beautiful, she was young, it was a great story, except none of it was true.
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And she's where we were
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And she's now we were she's now in
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The basis of that trial and those charges were that she knew it didn't work and she didn't say anything and people were relying on it as uh being effective and getting tested for things like cancer and cholesterol and and uh you know, so she was found guilty of that.
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So ethically devastating.
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