“Being followed is a very terrifying thing.'
The occasional unease is the lingering aftereffect of the former Theranos lab associate’s role in exposing the now-defunct health-care startup, which shuttered last year after whistleblowers and journalists uncovered its dubious blood-testing practices.
Cheung quit in 2014 after seven months, and says removing herself from the turmoil helped clear her head. She learned from Carreyrou that multiple other employees had raised concerns, and learned through a lawyer’s free advice that she might be protected by whistleblower laws if she reported Theranos to a regulatory agency.
Drawing lessons from Theranos Theranos chief executive Elizabeth Holmes and her former business partner and ex-boyfriend, Ramesh “Sunny” Balwani, now face felony criminal charges that could land them in prison for up to two decades. Both Holmes and Balwani have pleaded not guilty. Theranos has made a new wave of headlines in 2019 with a handful of high-profile media projects, including an HBO T, +0.51% documentary by Alex Gibney, “The Inventor: Out for Blood In Silicon Valley,” released earlier this spring. Others include a popular ABC News DIS, +1.11% podcast, a forthcoming Hulu miniseries starring Kate McKinnon and an in-the-works Adam McKay film starring Jennifer Lawrence.
Another lesson: “This is not the norm. Theranos is a pretty spectacular and sensational case,” Cheung said. “Everyone can see commonalities in their own experience, maybe not at the same scale, but there are still a lot of people who build technology companies who are trying to do it the right way.” In retrospect, Cheung says she wishes she’d had more confidence in herself and in her commitment to scientific integrity and patient safety. “It could have been a little less painful, I think, if I started really clearly with just: ‘Look, stay calm, you are fine. This doesn’t need to be that stressful. You’re doing it based on the right principles.’”
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