"The thing I learned in Silicon Valley is that there’s a pot of money bigger than I ever imagined. That’s when I realized I don’t need to feel some sort of way about asking for $70,000 at work when Elizabeth Holmes is making hundreds of millions to kill people with her fake blood machine. Know what I mean?" — Aminatou Sow, co-host of the Call Your Girlfriend podcast and former Google employee, in her interview in The Cut.
The best quote from Aminatou Sow's interview in The Cut is about Elizabeth Holmes's "fake blood machine"
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