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USALiberal

(10,877 posts)
Sat Mar 16, 2019, 09:06 PM Mar 2019

If you are interested in the Theranos / Elizabeth Holmes scam, HBO Documentary airs tomorrow night!

It is called The Inventor - Out For Blood In Silicon Valley

From the link:

Academy Award winner Alex Gibney (Enron: The Smartest Guys in the Room, HBO’s Emmy-winning Going Clear: Scientology and the Prison of Belief) directs a documentary investigating the rise and fall of Theranos, the one-time multibillion-dollar healthcare company founded by Elizabeth Holmes.

In 2004, Elizabeth Holmes dropped out of Stanford to start a company that was going to revolutionize healthcare. In 2014, Theranos was valued at $9 billion, making Holmes, who was touted as “the next Steve Jobs,” the youngest self-made female billionaire in the world. Just two years later, Theranos was cited as a “massive fraud” by the SEC, and its value was less than zero.

Trailer at this link:
https://www.hbo.com/documentaries/the-inventor-out-for-blood-in-silicon-valley

I read the book, "Bad Blood: Secrets and Lies in a Silicon Valley Startup" and it was an amazing story.

Amazing how many people she fooled, George Schultz, Henry Kissinger, James Mattis,

Worth the watch if you have HBO!

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If you are interested in the Theranos / Elizabeth Holmes scam, HBO Documentary airs tomorrow night! (Original Post) USALiberal Mar 2019 OP
And there's a podcast called The Dropout. RandySF Mar 2019 #1
Did she go to jail ? obnoxiousdrunk Mar 2019 #2
No trail yet. Nt USALiberal Mar 2019 #3
Does The Book RobinA Mar 2019 #4
Not really, not much about her side of the story. Nt USALiberal Mar 2019 #6
Ive been following on the podcast Texasgal Mar 2019 #5

RobinA

(9,894 posts)
4. Does The Book
Sat Mar 16, 2019, 11:39 PM
Mar 2019

go into her thinking at all. The book is on my to-read list and I watched the 20/20 and I’m left wondering where she thought the whole thing was headed.

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