Fair. An interesting question: how quickly can we detect something without being thwarted by anisotropy / the multiplicity of backward paths? ie- retrodiction

Let’s organize the temporal order a bit. This is what some research turned up.

“Groups of senior employees, concerned with Altman’s leadership and lack of transparency, asked Loopt’s board on two occasions to fire him as C.E.O., according to Hagey.”

“As Mark Jacobstein, an older Loopt employee who was asked by investors to act as Altman’s “babysitter,” later told Keach Hagey, for “The Optimist,” a biography of Altman, “There’s a blurring between ‘I think I can maybe accomplish this thing’ and ‘I have already accomplished this thing’ that in its most toxic form leads to Theranos,” Elizabeth Holmes’s fraudulent startup.”

https://ghostarchive.org/archive/veLhW

I read he’s a vegetarian out of concern for animals, and that’s a good moral sign (but perhaps less relevant here).

Are / were there precursor concerns arising to signal back then? I don’t know.