

Yet for over 10 years, he somehow failed to detect the fraud at the heart of Theranos. The Food and Drug Administration is not known for flouting caution: Americans have just seen its slow bureaucrats block access to life-saving treatments in the age of COVID-19. In 2015, Forbes had named Holmes the youngest and wealthiest self-made female billionaire in America. She was the founder and CEO of Theranos, a now- defunct health technology company. It was those disenchanted employees, followed by journalist John Carreyrou of The Wall Street Journal. Elizabeth Anne Holmes (born February 3, 1984) is a former American businesswoman and convicted fraudster. It wasn’t eagle-eyed regulators who spotted the fraud. (Those included, among other mistakes, a client who received a false positive for HIV.) As the troupe begins her descent, so does Holmes, played with disconcerting intensity by Amanda Seyfried, who nails her understated, wide-eyed ferocity. We see the operation crumble slowly, then quickly, as some workers within the company become disillusioned with broken blood-testing machines and error-ridden diagnoses. What started out looking like a Silicon Valley success story didn’t end that way. He earned Holmes glowing profiles in the mainstream media and forged a corporate board that included former Secretary of State George Shultz. There’s the rhymes with Neve Bobs black turtleneck, and, of course, that hair. Theranos sold a blood-testing technology that, according to its own hype, would revolutionize preventive medicine by scanning for a litany of potential diseases in a small blood draw. Former Theranos CEO and girlboss parable Elizabeth Holmes is a woman with a laundry list of signature looks.
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Hulu limited television series abandonment tells the story of Holmes over a decade, from the humble beginning of his career in a dilapidated office building where gunfire was flying near a palatial headquarters as the company’s valuation hit $9 billion. In a sense, she still is, albeit for dramatically different reasons. Elizabeth Holmes, founder of the disgraced medical technology company Theranos, was once seen as the personification of Silicon Valley.
