CB Insights

MARCH 6, 2019

After soaring to a multi-billion-dollar valuation behind an iconic founder, a team of prominent backers, and a promise to revolutionize blood testing, Theranos officially ceased operations in 2018. Theranos was founded in 2003 by Elizabeth Holmes, then an undergraduate student at Stanford University’s School of Engineering.

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CB Insights

MAY 10, 2018

Expertise: An experienced operator’s perspective on a problem and the different ways that it can be solved. There’s a complexity to getting these tools operational that compounds at scale. Bain, which has helped hundreds of similar businesses undergo their “digital transformation,” has that deep operator expertise.

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CB Insights

JUNE 17, 2020

VR has also helped businesses across industries keep operations running. The equipment was expensive and companies lacked the in-house expertise required to operate it. Understanding the need to meet consumers where they are, many retailers have embraced chatbots as part of broader social media engagement strategies.

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CB Insights

NOVEMBER 16, 2017

It wouldn’t be until almost exactly one year later that investors really started flocking to the early social media startup. Both Lefkofsky (with Groupon) and Kleiner Perkins (with Cerent) were able to win so big in part because they had hands-on operational roles in their investments. When Snap Inc.

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