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    Outcome Health's problems with sales pitches go back years

    by Patricia Callahan, Chicago Tribune Nov 21, 2017 4 minutes

    CHICAGO - Long before investors poured nearly $500 million into Outcome Health, executives at the Chicago startup time and again reprimanded salesmen for making misleading or inaccurate claims, records show.

    Outcome, which pitches doctor's offices free health-related programming and ads on TVs and tablets it provides, was once considered among Chicago's most promising tech startups.

    The company now is facing a court battle with major investors, including units of Goldman Sachs, Google -parent Alphabet Inc. and a venture capital fund co-founded J. B. Pritzker, who is running for governor of Illinois. They sued Outcome and founders Rishi Shah and Shradha Agarwal, alleging fraud

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