Elizabeth Holmes
Elizabeth Anne Holmes is an American businesswoman convicted of fraud in connection with her health technology company Theranos. Holmes founded Theranos in 2003, and its valuation soared in the early 2010s after it claimed to have revolutionized blood testing by developing methods that needed only very small volumes of blood, such as from a fingerprick. In 2015, Forbes named Holmes the youngest and wealthiest self-made female billionaire in the United States on the basis of a $9 billion valuation of Theranos. In the following year, as accusations of fraud about Theranos's claims began to surface, Forbes revised its estimate of Holmes's net worth to zero, and Fortune named her in its feature article on "The World's 19 Most Disappointing Leaders".
Why the popularity?
This summary is AI-generated and may contain errors. It's researched by Claude Sonnet 5.5 using web search and Wikipedia, then reviewed and rewritten by a separate Claude Sonnet 5.5 editor.- Nathan Fielder and Lance Oppenheim's documentary You Can See Everything about Elizabeth Holmes hit theaters Friday, and people are showing up.
- The setup: weeks before heading to prison, the Theranos founder invites a skeptical film crew to follow her every move.
- A24 billed it as a mystery film at the Telluride Film Festival, then a meme craze got everyone curious.
- Holmes called Fielder from prison right before release, reportedly telling him again and again, "I trust you."
