Theranos promised to revolutionize healthcare with a single drop of blood and became one of the most infamous failures in biotech history.
In this episode, we trace the full rise and fall of Elizabeth Holmes and Theranos, from its founding in 2003 to its dramatic collapse and criminal convictions nearly two decades later. We explore how ambition, secrecy, and Silicon Valley mythology allowed unproven science to scale into a $9 billion company, how powerful board members and investors failed to ask the right questions, and how whistleblowers and investigative journalism ultimately exposed the truth. This is a story about innovation without evidence, the dangers of charisma over data, and why medicine is uniquely unforgiving of hype. A cautionary tale at the intersection of biotech, venture capital, media, and power.
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