DESK 2 — FILE OPEN
FOLDER T-0904CASE #2018-0904SHELF 4 / ROW C
BUREAU OF COMMERCIAL DEATHS
DIVISION OF COLD CASES / FORM 41-D / DEATH OF A GOING CONCERN
CASE NUMBER
CASE #2018-0904
SUBJECT
THERANOS, INC.
DATE OPENED
2003 — Palo Alto, California
DATE CLOSED
September 4, 2018
KNOWN ALIASES
Real-Time Cures, Inc.; devices “Edison” and “miniLab”
INVESTIGATOR
Det. Redact
CAUSE OF DEATH
The machine did not work.
PEAK VALUATION
$9,000,000,000 (2014)
ASSETS RECOVERED
$0. Patients notified by mail.
EVIDENCE SUMMARY
Subject advertised more than two hundred diagnostic tests from a single drop of blood.
Twelve were performed on the proprietary device. The remainder were run on commercially available analyzers, relabeled.
Board of directors included two former Secretaries of State and no practicing physicians.
Remainder of statement sealed:
DESK NOTE — INVESTIGATING OFFICER
Blood is not a software problem.
FILED BY Det. Redact · BADGE 0001NO FURTHER ACTION AUTHORIZED
PROPERTY OF THE BUREAUDO NOT REMOVE FROM ROOM 0114
MARGIN NOTE — INVESTIGATING OFFICER
Cause of death is four words. I typed it eleven times. It never got longer.
EXHIBIT A — recovered from the Edison device lab.
EVIDENCE TAG
ITEM T-0904
SUBJECT THERANOS, INC.
RECEIVED 2018
CONDITION AS FOUND
SUBJECT THERANOS, INC.
RECEIVED 2018
CONDITION AS FOUND