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Aswath Damodaran – Runaway Stories and Fairy Tale Endings: The Cautionary Tale of Theranos

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Aswath Damodaran – Runaway Stories and Fairy Tale Endings: The Cautionary Tale of Theranos

 

In this session, I look at the climb of Theranos, a start up founded by a 19-year old dropout from Stanford and how a story can sometimes be so good that no one wants to ask tough questions.
Slides: http://www.stern.nyu.edu/~adamodar/pd…

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