The Inventor: Out for Blood in Silicon Valley

Synopsis

With a magical new invention that promised to revolutionize blood testing, Elizabeth Holmes became the world’s youngest self-made billionaire, heralded as the next Steve Jobs. Then, overnight, her 10-billion-dollar company dissolved. The rise and fall of Theranos is a window into the psychology of fraud.

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When & where

Streaming on

• HBO Max↗
• HBO Max Amazon Channel↗

Top of the call sheet

• 
  Elizabeth Holmes
  as Self - CEO and Founder of Theranos (archive footage)
• 
  Alex Gibney
  as Self - Narrator / Interviewer
• 
  Dan Ariely
  as Self - Behavioral Economist
• 
  Roger Parloff
  as Self - Fortune
• K
  Ken Auletta
  as Self - The New Yorker
• E
  Erika Cheung
  as Self - Lab Associate

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