Silicon Valley is well known for being a breeding ground for start-up ventures. There is often a focus on the "fake it until you make it" mentality and there is no better example of this backfiring than Elizabeth Holmes, former founder and CEO of Theranos, that was developing a machine that could run several hundred laboratory tests from a few drops of blood. Holmes made headlines for her drastic rise and fall from grace after she was charged with fraud that has been the topic of newspaper articles, books, and documentaries. After learning more about her story, in this episode we discuss her story and her pending trial that started in the Bay Area this week.
