Elizabeth Holmes and Theranos have been making the news rounds these past couple of days.
It’s a fascinating story to follow, about how a Stanford dropout started 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.” (Source: HBO)
There’s a new documentary about it on HBO, The Inventor: Out for Blood in Silicon Valley. Watch the trailer below.
Also check out director Alex Gibney’s commentary on the “Theranos effect” here. —JG
IN PHOTOS: The Elizabeth Holmes saga
NEW YORK, NY – SEPTEMBER 29: U.S. President Bill Clinton speaks as Elizabeth Holmes, founder and CEO of Theranos and Jack Ma, Executive Chairman of Alibaba Group, listens during the closing session of the Clinton Global Initiative 2015 on September 29, 2015 in New York City. JP Yim/Getty Images/AFPPHILADELPHIA, PA – OCTOBER 05: (L-R) Elizabeth Holmes, Founder & CEO of Theranos being interviewed by Matthew Herper, Senior Editor, Pharma & Healthcare, Forbes Media at Forbes Under 30 Summit at Pennsylvania Convention Center on October 5, 2015 in Philadelphia, Pennsylvania. Lisa Lake/Getty Images/AFPTheranos chief executive Elizabeth Holmes gestures as she speaks at a Wall Street Journal technology conference in Laguna Beach, California on October 21, 2015. The founder of innovative blood test startup Theranos challenged The Wall Street Journal on its own turf about an investigation into the firm’s technology. Elizabeth Holmes took to the stage at the prestigious WSJDLive technology conference on the Southern California coast to say the Journal got the story wrong. AFP PHOTO/ GLENN CHAPMAN (Photo by GLENN CHAPMAN / AFP)MOUNTAIN VIEW, CA – NOVEMBER 08: CEO Theranos Elizabeth Holmes attends the 2016 Breakthrough Prize Ceremony on November 8, 2015 in Mountain View, California. Kimberly White/Getty Images for Breakthrough Prize/AFPSAN JOSE, CALIFORNIA – JANUARY 14: Former Theranos founder and CEO Elizabeth Holmes arrives at the Robert F. Peckham U.S. Federal Court on January 14, 2019 in San Jose, California. Former Theranos CEO Elizabeth Holmes and former COO Ramesh Balwani appeared in federal court facing charges of conspiracy and wire fraud for allegedly engaging in a multimillion-dollar scheme to defraud investors with the Theranos blood testing lab services. Justin Sullivan/Getty Images/AFPSAN JOSE, CALIFORNIA – JANUARY 14: Former Theranos founder and CEO Elizabeth Holmes goes through security as she arrives at the Robert F. Peckham U.S. Federal Court on January 14, 2019 in San Jose, California. Former Theranos CEO Elizabeth Holmes and former COO Ramesh Balwani appeared in federal court facing charges of conspiracy and wire fraud for allegedly engaging in a multimillion-dollar scheme to defraud investors with the Theranos blood testing lab services. Justin Sullivan/Getty Images/AFP
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