I'm not sure how citing the most controversial startup in the Valley (who allegedly raised boatloads of cash with a fundamentally broken product) and a big company with infinite cash as examples really helps your case?

I couldn't even find anything about the "services" Theranos offered (and it seems unlikely they would pursue the multi-year bureaucratic hurdle-jumping FDA approval process for two different products concurrently). I only see something about an equally controversial SARS detector but with strong indications that it was developed pre-Theranos by the founder.