Comment on Elizabeth Holmes barred from federal health programs for 90 years
Ganbat@lemmyonline.com 8 months ago
For anyone having trouble remembering her like me, this is the woman that ran the scam blood testing company with “super-duper awesome blood testing machines,” that actually never worked and they just did standard blood tests at huge markups (read: committed fraud).
tourist@lemmy.world 8 months ago
she also did that goofy fake deep voice for some reason
Nythos@sh.itjust.works 8 months ago
She read that women with deeper voices get taken more seriously by people around them and can be seen here messing it up.
captainlezbian@lemmy.world 8 months ago
The reason is she got taken more seriously with a deeper voice
DragonTypeWyvern@literature.cafe 8 months ago
The goofy thing is that it worked on the boomers.
M137@lemmy.world 8 months ago
No, the reason is she did it because she read/heard that it would make others take her more seriously. That’s not the same as what you said.
Kusimulkku@lemm.ee 8 months ago
Well, at least she hoped she would be
frunch@lemmy.world 8 months ago
In the end, that may be what she’s remembered most for
TheGrandNagus@lemmy.world 8 months ago
Our silly monkey brains interpret deeper voices as being more authoritative.
It’s likely she was taking advantage of that human quirk to make her seem, on a subconscious level, like a better businessperson.