Reminder: if her product had actually gotten off the ground: literally tens of thousands of people could have died.
And Theranos already did give one person a false HIV positive and told another patient she was miscarrying when her pregnancy was, in fact, going perfectly fine.
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This is like Glass Onion when everyone was like “inept, idiot tech billionaire with a great sales pitch? Must be Elon Musk!”
Then Rian Johnson was like “Well, no. Not really.” (the character seems to be more of a dig at Elizabeth Holmes, imo. And the movie was made a year ago, before the Elon/twitter fiasco.)
Musk fans watching this film and instantly jumping to that conclusion says a lot about what they think of him, deep down.
February 3rd, 1984: Elizabeth Holmes is born. Holmes is an American businesswomen who was briefly considered a genius for revolutionizing blood testing as CEO of Theranos. Beginning in 2015, revelations about mass fraud stripped her of wealth and credibility, and she has since been sentenced to 11 and a quarter years (135 months) in prison.