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Related: Editorials & Other Articles, Issue Forums, Alliance Forums, Region ForumsIf 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, HBOs 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!
RandySF
(59,079 posts)obnoxiousdrunk
(2,910 posts)USALiberal
(10,877 posts)RobinA
(9,894 posts)go into her thinking at all. The book is on my to-read list and I watched the 20/20 and Im left wondering where she thought the whole thing was headed.
USALiberal
(10,877 posts)Texasgal
(17,046 posts)What a mess... Bright young lady consumed by greed.