Elizabeth Holmes Part 2
Show notes
The wheels are coming off Theranos. Although, as it turns out, there were never any wheels to begin with.
In Part 2, Sophie takes us through the spectacular collapse of Elizabeth Holmes's $9 billion blood-testing empire, as the little machine that couldn't is finally unleashed on actual human beings. And the consequences are horrifying.
We've got patients receiving devastatingly inaccurate diagnoses, terrified employees, courageous whistleblowers, a pack of frat boys known as the Therabros, and a journalist determined to expose the whole bloody mess.
Then come the lawsuits, the criminal trial, prison, Burning Man (naturally), and the extraordinary question of whether Elizabeth Holmes genuinely believes she's done anything wrong.
And just when you think this story couldn't possibly get any stranger, there's a new diagnostics startup on the horizon. Because apparently nobody has learned a single fucking thing.
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Content warning: Discussion of suicide, medical trauma and sexual assault.
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