Erika Cheung : Theranos, whistleblowing and speaking truth to power

Erika Cheung·TEDxBerkeley
Theranos, whistleblowing and speaking truth to power
Summary 

I was sorry that l didn’t know about the incident that happened in 2014. 

Theranos was the company whose founder was a young woman. Her name is Elizabeth Holmes, and the company’s purpose had been really great. 

It created a medical device of the smallest blood panel. By using it, a blood test was not less painful, it could only get a small amount of blood, and it quickly did. It must have led to finding your disease before you get sick. However, Theranos used the wrong samples. The speaker worked at Theranos, when she realized it and told it to the COO, the company was too big to understand it. The desires that are high positions, honor, and money clouded people’s judgments, though, the speaker continued speaking up the right things. And then, with a very talented journalist, a free lawyer, and her strong action, she could stop the company. 

The speaker has the power to act and imagine. For action, commitment is the desire to do the right things regardless of the cost. 

Consciousness is to aware of moral convictions, competency is the ability to collect and evaluate information and foresee potential consequences and risk, and imagining that if this happened to your loved one.