Theranos: Rise, Fraud, and Aftermath

The full Theranos story for curious viewers: how Elizabeth Holmes built a $9 billion blood-testing company on a device that ran only a handful of tests, who exposed it, and what the trials, sentences, and You Can See Everything reveal.

5 sections · 17 lessons

Course outline

Building the Myth

  1. A Sophomore's Plan to End Needles
  2. A Black Box Behind Locked Doors
  3. The Most Accomplished Board, Minus Lab Experts
  4. The Partner Nobody Was Told About

Inside the Lab

  1. Most Tests Never Touched the Edison
  2. Partners Who Never Saw the Real Lab
  3. The Chief Scientist Who Saw Nothing There
  4. Two Junior Employees Who Refused to Look Away

The Unraveling

  1. How a Blog Post Became an Exposé
  2. The Owner Who Wouldn't Kill the Story
  3. When Regulators Finally Got Inside
  4. Charged, Indicted, and Dissolved

On Trial

  1. Three Years of Waiting, Seven Days on the Stand
  2. Guilty for Investors, Not for Patients
  3. Same Range, Different Sentences

After the Fall

  1. Where Holmes Stands Now
  2. 34 Days Before Prison, on Camera

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