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Shultz met Holmes through his grandfather, George Shultz, director of Theranos. Shultz was a student at Stanford when he met Holmes and started interning at Theranos his junior year. During his time at the company, however, he began to pick up on failings in the technology that were not being addressed by Holmes or anyone else working at Theranos. When his concerns were ignored, Shultz contacted The Wall Street Journal and New York state's public-health lab to blow the whistle on the fraud being perpetrated at the company, which in part caused its downfall.