If one assumes Holmes didn't realize their product didn't work (questionable at best), imagine how it must be to work 7 days a week, forego friendships and intimate relationships, and not even watch TV, then after 12 years of that discover what you tried to make didn't/won't work. In too deep or something to just admit it's over and move on.
Sounds like a very undesirable number of years with little positive to show, although maybe there were some lessons in there. Maybe time for a workaholic recovery program for her, who knows. Sad to hear the prime of a life spent like this... though perhaps not any worse than other destructive paths one could travel.
Except the boatloads of money she's already extracted from the company. What about the hundreds of people who propped up her vision and fueled the hundreds of puff pieces by A-level publications that walk away with absolutely nothing? What will it mean to have been a lab tech at Theranos?
Hopefully those people weren't giving up everything in their life for a job... but I guess that's anyone's choice. Money is nice to have, though I've enjoyed time with friends, loved ones, and leisure more personally.
Sounds like a very undesirable number of years with little positive to show, although maybe there were some lessons in there. Maybe time for a workaholic recovery program for her, who knows. Sad to hear the prime of a life spent like this... though perhaps not any worse than other destructive paths one could travel.