a great opportunity to ask so many people things about the future and advice and we thought we d ask a few questions that run a little bit of a gamut really quickly. i m sorry. you ll also be looking into the lens. okay. we thought it would be interesting to ask you in the year 2025 what s the thing you are most certain about? more people will have access to their own health information. what do you dream for something in 2025? that less people have to say good-bye too soon to people they love. that s a great one. can you tell us a secret? i don t have many secrets. are you a scientists or a technologist or an entrepreneur? i think entrepreneur. i was trained as an engineer but now my time is spent on doing whatever it takes to realize this mission. theranos is a combination of therapy and diagnosis. if we can shift toward a model in where we are determining the onset in time for therapy to be effective, we will change outcomes. you founded this co
like, 200 different assays. we had no more than half of those working in the lab at that point, let alone all the edisons. it s trying to do so much analysis. you need so much hardware inside the machine, it was totally unpr inpractical. they were adamant about the machine being this big. i said, we can t do this. the laws of physics don t allow us to fit all this stuff into this box. can the box be bigger? and a common response at theranos was something along the lines of, maybe you re not a silicon valley person. maybe you should go work for another person if you don t believe in the vision of the product. and what would start off as a very serious brainstorming meeting would turn into a two-hour conversation about the name of the cloud that s going
room with the results, and these guys would come back in and say, oh, here s your results from running our test. we had listed on the web page, like, 200 different assays. we had no more than half of those actually validated to be working even in the lab at that point, let alone on the edisons. because it s trying to do multiple analysis. you need so much hardware inside the machine, it was totally impra impractical. they were very adamant about the machine being this big. it s got to be this big. i said, we can t do this. the laws of physics don t allow us to cram all this stuff that we decided that needs to go in there into this little box. can the box be bigger? and a common response at theranos was something along the lines of, maybe you re not a silicon valley person. maybe you should go work for another person if you don t believe in the vision of the product. and what would start off as a