Even Before The Elizabeth Holmes Film Hit HBO, Theranos Cast A Long Shadow On Healthcare Startups

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Even before the Elizabeth Holmes film hit HBO, Theranos cast a long shadow on healthcare startups by ellie_kincaid

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FILE- In this Nov. 2, 2015, file photo, Elizabeth Holmes, founder and CEO of Theranos, speaks at the Fortune Global Forum in San Francisco. On Wednesday, March 14, 2018, the Securities and Exchange Commission filed charges against Holmes and her. Gibney's previous documentary subjects include Enron and Scientology.

"The Inventor: Out for Blood in Silicon Valley," addresses the story of how Holmes dropped out of Stanford, founded Theranos to make diagnostic blood tests more accessible, raised enough capital to give the company a $9 billion valuation, and saw the company dissolve once John Carreyrou of theTheranos and Holmes have become a new reference point in the discussion of Silicon Valley startups trying to hack healthcare.

 

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ellie_kincaid We know just tip iceberg. Irrational exuberance unlike anytime history, blind trust in unproven youth & greed has destroyed reason. Theranos should have blown up on launch pad. Went so far, kept up by media, desperate for eyeballs not interested in truth. NoLifeguardOnDuty'

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