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danwin114 karma
How did the idea for the story come about? Did a local official complain about it? Did a reporter one day wonder why the downtown area seem especially dead?
danwin71 karma
Here's an interview where it sounds like she's slipped out of her deeper voice:
https://youtu.be/rGfaJZAdfNE?t=6m42s
From earlier, in that same interview:
danwin41 karma
You're asking if they can "counter these criticisms" -- you don't think they attempted to do that in replying to various questions in this thread, for the past few hours?
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FWIW, in his book, Carreyrou doesn't claim Holmes lowered her voice based on his own observations (though he's obviously listened/watched a lot of Holmes tape). He attributes this claim to Theranos employees:
Like most people, Greg had been taken aback by Elizabeth’s deep voice when he’d first met her. He soon began to suspect it was affected. One evening, as they wrapped up a meeting in her office shortly after he joined the company, she lapsed into a more natural-sounding young woman’s voice. “I’m really glad you’re here,” she told him as she got up from her chair, her pitch several octaves higher than usual.
In her excitement, she seemed to have momentarily forgotten to turn on the baritone. When Greg thought about it, there was a certain logic to her act: Silicon Valley was overwhelmingly a man’s world. The VCs were all male and he couldn’t think of any prominent female startup founder. At some point, she must have decided the deep voice was necessary to get people’s attention and be taken seriously.
danwin261 karma
Where's Waldo, String?
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