The Dropout · ABC News
'20/20': The Rise and Con of Elizabeth Holmes
March 6, 2022·1 hr 17 min·6 clips
Elizabeth Holmes declares 'I will never break' as her blood-testing company Theranos is revealed to be science fiction.
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A sharp Theranos recap that turns the Elizabeth Holmes myth into a patient-stakes fraud story.
Elizabeth Holmes' rise and collapse lands here as a fraud story that gets uglier once Theranos moves out of pitch decks and into Walgreens exam rooms. The hour traces the clean founder myth: Stanford dropout, lifesaving mission, tiny nanotainer, office-as-identity discipline.
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The blood tests were fake. The patients were real. This is where those two facts finally meet.
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