The great tragedies are often about lies. Or at least withheld truths, that once revealed mean that nothing can be the same.
This is true across the history of stories, from Oedipus Rex to King Lear to Breaking Bad—and it’s true in Silicon Valley. Nothing was ever the same for Theranos after John Carreyrou’s first bombshell Wall Street Journal story, for FTX after CoinDesk unveiled concerns about the company’s financial structure, or for WeWork after its IPO filing laid bare the company’s deep-rooted issues.
