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The Inventor: Out for Blood in Silicon Valley: Directed by Alex Gibney. With Alex Gibney, Elizabeth Holmes, Dan Ariely, Roger Parloff. The story of Theranos, a multi-billion dollar tech company, its founder Elizabeth Holmes, the youngest self-made female billionaire, and the massive fraud that collapsed the company.
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- 2019-03-18
The Inventor: Out for Blood in Silicon Valley is a 2019 American documentary film, directed and produced by Alex Gibney. The film revolves around Elizabeth Holmes and her former company Theranos. It is considered a companion piece to the book, Bad Blood: Secrets and Lies in a Silicon Valley Startup. [2]
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The Inventor: Out for Blood in Silicon Valley Director: Alex Gibney HBO (2019)
It is hard to imagine a Silicon Valley story more riveting than the tale of Theranos, the US$9-billion company founded by a 19-year-old wunderkind who promised to revolutionize medical testing and instead was charged with fraud last year. There is fear and betrayal, money and deception, and perhaps a few lessons about the extension of the technology hype cycle to medicine.
The latest take on this drama — The Inventor: Out for Blood in Silicon Valley — is a documentary directed by Alex Gibney. Released in March, it enters a crowded field of analyses centred on the Theranos phenomenon and its founder, Elizabeth Holmes. In January, US television network ABC News and the programme Nightline released a compelling six-episode podcast documentary called The Dropout, then quickly followed with a video documentary of the same name. Last year, Wall Street Journal investigative reporter John Carreyrou, a key player in Theranos’s downfall (he broke the story in 2015), published his definitive book, Bad Blood. Plans are afoot for a film starring Jennifer Lawrence as Holmes.
Each treatment so far is a gripping account of how Holmes dropped out of Stanford University in California, and persuaded the glitterati of Silicon Valley and Washington DC to pour money into her vision: technology that could perform hundreds of tests on drops of blood taken from a finger prick. Holmes pledged that the method would liberate people from the tyranny of venous blood draws, which she likened to medieval torture (The Inventor plays on that imagery with unsettling slow-motion close-ups of needles piercing veins).
At its peak in 2013, Theranos had ‘testing centres’ in more than 40 pharmacies, many of them in Arizona and California. But reporting by Carreyrou revealed that the company could use its machines to perform only a handful of the more than 200 tests on offer, and even then the results were unreliable. The rest of the tests were carried out on standard devices, sometimes used in unproven ways. Worried physicians told Carreyrou of patients with unusual, sometimes alarming, results from Theranos that did not hold up when samples were sent to conventional testing providers.
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“The Inventor: Out for Blood in Silicon Valley” is the story of Elizabeth Holmes, founder and CEO of Theranos. It’s a study in deception, and as told by filmmaker Alex Gibney (“Enron: The Smartest Guys in the Room“), it’s a disturbing and sad one.
Mar 18, 2019 · A new HBO documentary chronicles the rise and collapse of the entrepreneur Elizabeth Holmes and her biotech company Theranos. "The Inventor: Out For Blood In Silicon Valley" debuts tonight....
An inside look at Theranos and its founder Elizabeth Holmes, whose ambition spawned one of the biggest frauds in Silicon Valley. Watch The Inventor: Out for Blood in Silicon Valley online at HBO.com. Stream on any device any time. Explore cast information, synopsis and more.
