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