Ep. - 390 - THE TRIAL OF ELIZABETH HOLMES, EX-FOUNDER OF THERANOS THE INVENTOR ON HBO

<p>A review of The Inventor, an HBO documentary investigating the rise and fall of Theranos, the one-time multibillion-dollar healthcare company founded by Elizabeth Holmes, currently on trial. In 2004, she dropped out of Stanford to start a company that was going to revolutionize healthcare. In 2014, Theranos was valued at $9 billion, making Holmes, who was touted as “the next Steve Jobs,” the youngest self-made female billionaire in the world. Just two years later, Theranos was cited as a “massive fraud” by the SEC, and its value was less than zero. The Inventor tells a Silicon Valley tale that was too good to be tr...