Anybody else really feel like their total social media feed has been obsessed with Elizabeth Holmes for years?
If that title sounds acquainted to you, it is not as a result of she’s that woman out of your hometown who simply bought engaged. And no, she’s not one of many Bravo actuality stars who bought caught up in “Scandoval.” Quite, she based Theranos, the corporate as soon as apparently valued at $10 billion that was about to revolutionize the well being care system…besides it by no means did as a result of it was all based mostly on false guarantees.
The epic rise and fall of Theranos and Holmes, 39, has all of the makings of a traditional Hollywood story: secret workplace romances, faux voices, many lies, a number of cash and, in fact, a compelling anti-hero on the middle of all of it—one who reported to prison on May 30 to begin an 11.25-year sentence for mendacity to a few of the buyers who pumped roughly $1 billion into her blood testing firm.
Because the scandal broke in October 2015, Hollywood positively took discover of Holmes’ story, which has gone on to obtain the popular culture model of an EGOT: It impressed a best-selling ebook (Dangerous Blood), the HBO documentary The Inventor: Out for Blood in Silicon Valley, successful podcast referred to as The Dropout, and, of most not too long ago, Hulu’s restricted collection based mostly on mentioned podcast that earned Amanda Seyfried an Emmy in 2022 for her portrayal of the controversial determine.