Subscribe here: Full Episodes: | The Bloody Lie (2022)
The promise was a health care revolution. The reality was a bloody lie. When Elizabeth Holmes claimed she’d invented a device that with a pinprick of blood could diagnose hundreds of medical conditions, she became the darling of Silicon Valley. Holmes, along with her business partner and ex-lover Sunny Balwani, then set about duping investors to bankroll their multi-billion dollar company, Theranos. But what the couple didn’t count on was the courage of two of their own staff who knew the blood machine didn’t work, and knew they had to tell the world. Now Holmes and Balwani have been found guilty of fraud and could face decades in jail.
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