On Monday night, the MSU Ethics Lecture Series hosted Tyler Shultz, the whistleblower who helped take down Theranos, to discuss the importance of standing up to employers and institutions engaging in unethical practices.

The event was called "Fraud is Not a Trade Secret: A Conversation with Tyler Shultz."

Tyler Shultz was an employee of Theranos Inc., a biotechnology company founded in 2003 by now-disgraced entrepreneur Elizabeth Holmes. After a meteoric rise and reaching a value of $10 billion, the company was exposed for fraudulent practices by Shultz, his coworker Erika Cheung and Wall Street Journal investigative reporter John Carreyrou.

After introductions, the event's moderators asked Shultz to recount his time at Theranos.

Shultz's story

Shultz was a junior at Stanford University when his grandfather George Shultz, who worked in the Stanford Graduate School of Business and at the Hoover Institution, a conservative think tank on Stanford’s campus, invited him to his house one day.

George Shultz was a former U.S. Secretary of State who served under three U.S. presidents and was appointed by President Ronald Reagan.

“(My grandfather said) 'I’m having a brilliant woman over to my house, and I think you would learn a lot by just coming over and listening in on our discussion,'" Shultz recalled.

Later that day, Shultz rode his bike to his grandfather’s house and met Elizabeth Holmes.

“She was wearing her black turtleneck, her all-black outfit,” Shultz said. “I heard her...

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