Kif Leswing of Business Insider writes about how Wall Street Journal reporter John Carreyrou became the target in a Space Invaders video game created by employees at Theranos, the blood-testing company that he exposed for fraudulent business dealings.
Leswing writes, “Not only did Theranos employees once chant ‘f— you, Carreyrou’ at an all-hands meeting, but employees even built a ‘Space Invaders’-style game in which players were to shoot little pictures of Carreyrou’s head, as well as the Zika virus, he tweeted on Thursday.
Just learned of a priceless anecdote (so too late to include it in the book): At a company party, Theranos employees played a video game modeled after Atari’s Space Invaders: The gun was the miniLab, the bullets the nanotainers and the invader being shot at: Yours Truly!
— John Carreyrou (@JohnCarreyrou) April 12, 2018
On Friday, he obtained a picture of the game, “Haters’ gonna Hate v1.5.”
Space Invaders, Theranos Edition! pic.twitter.com/gOeUNqASBU
— John Carreyrou (@JohnCarreyrou) April 13, 2018
The black gun at the bottom is the miniLab and the other breed of invader in purple is the Zika virus! https://t.co/PtaYMIu49l
— John Carreyrou (@JohnCarreyrou) April 13, 2018
Carreyrou wrote that the game’s creator got in touch with him and would eventually send him the full game so he could play it.
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