All the families need to cut loose and relax somewhere, right? The Cabaretti own most of the lounges, though. Here in the Mezzio, the lounges are neutral territory. His ears flatten, and he bares his fangs. But the one on the left recognizes Perrie. He isn't here to be a problem, just looking. Security's fuzzy ears flick toward Perrie. Their brass-engraved eyeglasses reflect the purple light, enchanted into the form of liquid rope that's draped corner to corner across the lounge. He's not looking for Junash-apparently a harried aven with wings that droop sadly behind him as he runs out the back-Perrie's here for a maniacal little street brawler by the name of Krent. The padded door shuts behind him as he scans the lounge. Perrie has just ducked under the door frame to enter, careful not to catch his horn on the frame's varnished mahogany top. She was on the cover of T Magazine, too, just before the scandal broke.Perrie pulls up the tall, armored tips of his collar and ignores the whispers swirling in the dark light of the velvet-walled lounge around him. Read the Fortune article from 2014, a Wired piece from 2014 or the New Yorker story from 2014 where Holmes, when asked to explain how a Theranos device actually works, said “a chemistry is performed.” She was on the cover of Forbes in 2014 as the youngest female self-made billionaire, and there’s also her Time 100 blurb from 2015 written by Henry Kissinger, a Theranos board member.
#We need to go deeper thrown vial full#
If you really want to go along for the full Theranos ride, start with the hagiographies, which together demonstrate just how easy it was for many in media to buy into Holmes’s persona and vision. Her Co-conspirator: In July, Ramesh Balwani, a former Theranos executive who helped Holmes cultivate her Steve Jobs-like image, was found guilty of 12 counts of fraud.But ahead of her sentencing, she is asking for a new trial.
Her Conviction: In January, the Theranos founder was found guilty of four of 11 charges of fraud.Holmes wasn’t a creature of Silicon Valley, or so the refrain went. Con Artist: With Theranos, her blood-testing company, Elizabeth Holmes fooled investors, employees and media outlets.If you’re already deeply familiar with the story, certain points won’t come as a surprise: Holmes’s apparent fascination with Steve Jobs and Apple is mentioned constantly across all the retellings (her black turtleneck aesthetic especially), as is her deep voice, perhaps an affectation, even though it’s really only notable if it’s fake.Įlizabeth Holmes’s Epic Rise and Fall The Theranos founder’s story, from a $9 billion valuation to a fraud conviction, has come to symbolize the pitfalls of Silicon Valley’s culture.
The story of Theranos’s Silicon Valley rise and eventual total collapse - the company has dissolved, and Holmes was indicted on fraud charges - has lent itself to multiple retellings in various formats, including long-read articles, a meticulously researched book and a podcast, among others.Īlex Gibney’s documentary “The Inventor: Out for Blood In Silicon Valley,” premiering Monday on HBO, is the latest account of the ostensible visionary who managed to deceive a lot of people (including two former secretaries of state).
It’s a wild tale: Holmes was a 19-year-old Stanford student when she dropped out of school to launch Theranos, a company she said was developing a blood-testing device that could run hundreds of tests from just a finger-prick of blood rather than whole vials. The saga of the medical testing company Theranos and its founder, Elizabeth Holmes, is a swirling one, packed with lies, greed, secret romance, literal blood, metaphorical blood, power, secrecy and money.Īnd the Army.
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