by Mike Peditto to Joseph Sena at 6:23 p.m. PST on March 19, 2013.Sena replied: Email with the subject line “RE: Contract” sent by Joseph Sena to
Mike Peditto at 6:51 p.m. PST on March 20, 2013.
But Kate and Mike stayed alert: Many of the last-minute changes to the Theranos
website are captured in a Microsoft Word document marked “Theranos
Confidential” that Jeff Blickman emailed to Kate Wolff and Mike Peditto
moments before the conference call.
- GOING LIVE
He had just finished reading: Walter Isaacson, Steve Jobs (New York: Simon &
Schuster, 2011).
Another was Chinmay Pangarkar: LinkedIn profile of Chinmay Pangarkar.
There was also Suraj Saksena: LinkedIn profile of Suraj Saksena.
This Frankenstein machine: See the definition of “blade server” in the PC
Magazine Encyclopedia available at PCMag.com.
on June 5, 2012, she’d signed: Amended and restated Theranos Master Services
Agreement dated June 5, 2012, filed as Exhibit A in Walgreen Co. v.
Theranos, Inc., complaint.
The ADVIA was a hulking: See the Technical Specifications tab on the page devoted
to the ADVIA 1800 Chemistry System on the U.S. website of Siemens
Healthineers.
Hemolysis was a known side effect: Marlies Oostendorp, Wouter W. van Solinge,
and Hans Kemperman, “Potassium but Not Lactate Dehydrogenase Elevation
Due to In Vitro Hemolysis Is Higher in Capillary Than in Venous Blood
Samples,” Archives of Pathology & Laboratory Medicine 136 (October 2012):
1262–65.
- UNICORN
She hated the artist’s illustration: Joseph Rago, “Elizabeth Holmes: The
Breakthrough of Instant Diagnosis,” Wall Street Journal, September 7, 2013.
A press release was due: Theranos, “Theranos Selects Walgreens as a Long-Term
Partner Through Which to Offer Its New Clinical Laboratory Service,” press
release, September 9, 2013, Theranos website.
The former statesman: Theranos, Inc. et al. v. Fuisz Pharma LLC et al., trial
transcript, March 13, 2014, 92.