After working at Theranos Inc. for eight months, Tyler Shultz decided he had seen enough. On April 11, 2014, he emailed company founder Elizabeth Holmes to complain that Theranos had doctored research and ignored failed quality-control checks. The reply was withering. Ms. Holmes forwarded the email to Theranos President Sunny Balwani, who belittled Mr. Shultz’s grasp of basic mathematics and his knowledge of laboratory science, and then took a swipe at his relationship with George Shultz, the former secretary of state and...
Tyler Shultz has come forward as the employee who blew the whistle on the failed and erroneous test results at Theranos. Shultz said he tried to warn founder Elizabeth Holmes about the inaccuracy of the firm's much-praised Theranos Inc. blood testing devices, receiving short shrift from President Sunny Balwani. Shultz also spoke about how he secretly contacted a reporter about the story, and came under pressure to say nothing from his grandfather, George Shultz, who is a member of Theranos' board of counsellors.