Theranos initially gained huge traction, and Forbes estimates that, at one time, Holmes' net worth was around $4.5 billion. Holmes nevertheless went on to launch the company and lied for years about what her blood testing company, Theranos, was actually capable of doing." Her idea was to invent a machine which could run hundreds of complex tests on blood with a single finger pinprick. Phyllis Gardner about her idea, Gardner told her it was ambitious but also impossible. The Evening Standard states: "When told her professor Dr. She attended Stanford University, where she began developing the idea for Theranos. Bad Blood will reportedly see Jennifer Lawrence taking on the role of Holmes.Īccording to the Evening Standard, Holmes was born into a wealthy family in Washington, D.C. The story has also been snapped up by Hollywood, with a film about Holmes' journey called Bad Blood expected to be released later in 2019, reports Refinery29. In the book, Carreyrou answers the question asked by many: was Holmes simply an inexperienced business person who found herself in too deep, or was there a darker, psychological element at play? Was Holmes, in fact, a sociopath?Īccording to Vanity Fair, Carreyrou writes in answer to this question: " I’ll leave it to the psychologists to decide whether Holmes fits the clinical profile, but there’s no question that her moral compass was badly askew." The HBO film follows the release of the 2018 novel Bad Blood: Secrets and Lies in a Silicon Valley Startup, penned by journalist John Carreyrou. There has been no confirmation of a UK release date yet, but, according to the Guardian, The Inventor: Out for Blood In Silicon Valley is expected to be released in the UK later this year. But how can UK viewers watch The Inventor: Out for Blood In Silicon Valley?Īccording to Variety, the documentary premiered at the 2019 Sundance Film Festival earlier this year, and was released in the U.S. The documentary charts the rise and fall of Holmes, a young entrepreneur on a mission to raise millions of dollars for a new blood-testing technology. HBO's documentary The Inventor: Out for Blood In Silicon Valley tells the fascinating story of Elizabeth Holmes and her former company, Theranos.
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