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The Inventor: Out for Blood in Silicon Valley

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The Inventor: Out for Blood in Silicon Valley	comment	The Inventor: Out for Blood in Silicon Valley is a 2019 documentary about the entrepreneur Elizabeth Holmes, who claimed to have invented a revolutionary blood-analysis machine and was eventually revealed to be a fraud. The story chronicles her building her company, her marketing of the Edison (despite the fact it didn't work), and repeated attempts to fix the problem before her fraud was discovered.The documentary has been both praised as well as criticized for its handling of its subject matter. Many believe the work was too generous to Elizabeth Holmes, suggesting that her motives were good and she genuinely believed in the project versus was simply engaged in the long con.Out for Blood had its world premiere at the Sundance Film Festival on January 24, 2019. It was produced by HBO Documentary Films and Jigsaw Productions with a television premiere on March 18, 2019 on HBO as well as its streaming platforms.See also the nonfiction book Bad Blood and Hulu drama series The Dropout starring Amanda Seyfried as Holmes.
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The Inventor: Out for Blood in Silicon Valley / int_1520ad7e	comment	Jumping Off the Slippery Slope: Discussed. One of the former Theranos employees believes that the company's rise and fall began with one little lie that snowballed into a mess. Dr. Ariely compares it to a research project that proved people were more likely to cheat (or fudge the medical test results) when they believe it's for charity. Emphasis on believe.
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The Inventor: Out for Blood in Silicon Valley / int_15b2cab3	comment	Tempting Fate: After a Theranos device received FDA approval for a herpes test, a scene is shown in the company where Elizabeth enters the break room while MC Hammer’s "U Can’t Touch This" plays. This 'untouchable' status will be revoked soon...
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The Inventor: Out for Blood in Silicon Valley / int_2a7e7af1	comment	Limited Wardrobe: Regarding how she's always wearing black turtlenecks and pants, Elizabeth mentions "In line with designing my life to be able to give every bit of energy I have to this, I have a closet that has a very large number of the exact same clothes and every single day, I put the same thing on." Most of the people around her just noted that she was desperately trying to be Steve Jobs, down to stealing his wardrobe.
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The Inventor: Out for Blood in Silicon Valley / int_2bdae2ae	type	Awesome, but Impractical
The Inventor: Out for Blood in Silicon Valley / int_2bdae2ae	comment	Awesome, but Impractical: The Edison was sold on lots of Artistic License – Engineering, which turned out to be very hard if not impossible to execute by Theranos' engineers i.e. a single drop of capillary blood is not as helpful as a vial of venal one, or the machine would freeze, break or downright explode!
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The Inventor: Out for Blood in Silicon Valley / int_47184ded	comment	Becoming the Boast: A short segment on Thomas Edison focused on how he initially lied about being able to create an incandescent light bulb for months. He only succeeded shortly before his financial backers would finally demand to see the finished product. Edison's actions and success would set up Silicon Valley's "fake it till you make it" culture.
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The Inventor: Out for Blood in Silicon Valley / int_48ca7c29	comment	Broken Ace: Holmes is a brilliant, fearless entrepreneur who conquers male-dominated Silicon Valley and has the backing of people like former Vice President Joe Biden and former Secretary of State Henry Kissinger. She's also amoral, displays sociopathic personality traits and is absolutely insane.
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The Inventor: Out for Blood in Silicon Valley / int_599f943f	comment	Karma Houdini Warranty: in January 2022, Holmes was found guilty of three counts of wire fraud and one count of conspiracy to commit. She was sentenced to 11 years in prison, which she began serving in 2023.
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The Inventor: Out for Blood in Silicon Valley / int_7464705c	comment	Arc Words: "Fake it until you make it" is a Silicon Valley expression that is taken to its logical conclusion here.
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The Inventor: Out for Blood in Silicon Valley / int_7a1856ba	comment	I Reject Your Reality: Holmes seems genuinely unable to accept anything she doesn't want to hear, mostly around how the invention she's been hyping up is simply not going to work.
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The Inventor: Out for Blood in Silicon Valley / int_7eb73553	type	Bullying a Dragon
The Inventor: Out for Blood in Silicon Valley / int_7eb73553	comment	Bullying a Dragon: Elizabeth went after George Shultz's grandson as well as attempted to force Rupert Murdoch into killing a story by the Wallstreet Journal.
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The Inventor: Out for Blood in Silicon Valley / int_7febc23b	comment	Establishing Character Moment: There's more than a few, but one that stands out is an incident recalled by one of Elizabeth's former employees who later became a whistleblower: she desperately tried to get Holmes to listen to her complaints that their blood testing machine was no where near capable of doing what they publicly claimed it could do (and which tech experts in the documentary point out are physically impossible). But she had to struggle to even get Elizabeth's attention, because she was far more focused on an upcoming marketing meeting for designing the machine's business logo. This sums up in microcosm all that Elizabeth Holmes ever actually was: a flashy presentation with a media-savvy PR campaign...wrapped around a non-existent product.
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The Inventor: Out for Blood in Silicon Valley / int_83a903f6	comment	Stepford Smiler: Elizabeth Holmes is very good at seeming like nothing bothers her.
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The Inventor: Out for Blood in Silicon Valley / int_868409c	comment	Broken Pedestal: Many of Holmes's supporters and employees believe very deeply in her work, at the beginning at least.
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The Inventor: Out for Blood in Silicon Valley / int_87bb6874	comment	Villain with Good Publicity: Elizabeth Holmes was the darling of the media due to being a beautiful young entrepreneur who looked like she'd broken the glass ceiling with her genius.
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The Inventor: Out for Blood in Silicon Valley / int_928ca2cc	comment	You Have Outlived Your Usefulness: Any employee who questions Holmes or the company.
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The Inventor: Out for Blood in Silicon Valley / int_934c7e38	comment	Paper Tiger: Theranos essentially collapsed after one news article. It had only the Edison to justify its existence and no other technology or investments to keep it going.
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The Inventor: Out for Blood in Silicon Valley / int_97e96e2b	comment	The Unblinking: The receptionist of Theranos commented that Holmes' intense, unblinking gaze was the first thing that she noticed about her.
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The Inventor: Out for Blood in Silicon Valley / int_9919369d	comment	Con Man: The technology just plain doesn't work, and Holmes is covering that up from everybody.
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The Inventor: Out for Blood in Silicon Valley / int_a1ca3743	type	Believing Their Own Lies
The Inventor: Out for Blood in Silicon Valley / int_a1ca3743	comment	Believing Their Own Lies: The reason so many people buy into Elizabeth Holmes' belief that she can change the world is that she seems to believe she can change the world. Her refusal to acknowledge the mechanical flaws in her machines makes it difficult to prove that she intentionally lied at various points.
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The Inventor: Out for Blood in Silicon Valley / int_a70223	comment	Karma Houdini: Elizabeth Holmes still had not been put on trial for her many crimes as of 2020 and is engaged to a billionaire update Reportedly, she married Billy Evans in mid-2019, gave birth to a son in July 2021 and was pregnant again by October 2022. Karma Houdini Warranty: in January 2022, Holmes was found guilty of three counts of wire fraud and one count of conspiracy to commit. She was sentenced to 11 years in prison, which she began serving in 2023.
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The Inventor: Out for Blood in Silicon Valley / int_aed65980	comment	All for Nothing: A massive amount of research and time was devoted to trying to make the Edison work as intended, even when most experts were able to tell from the concept stage that what people wanted from it was impossible. Averted if you believe the whole point was to make money and it never had to work. Either way, Theranos disintegrated as a company and is valueless today.
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The Inventor: Out for Blood in Silicon Valley / int_b1dde8fd	type	Loophole Abuse
The Inventor: Out for Blood in Silicon Valley / int_b1dde8fd	comment	Loophole Abuse: The Theranos lawyers threaten to sue Tyler and Carryrou from the Wall Street Journal for "leaking trade secrets." Carreyrou is quick to question if that applies when Tyler has revealed that most of the Theranos tests are done by third party materials, not Theranos tech.
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The Inventor: Out for Blood in Silicon Valley / int_b4a6ae4c	comment	Everyone Has Standards: Rupert Murdoch was a major Theranos shareholder but refused to kill a story about them that would lead to their demise. Possibly Subverted as he's just as likely as anyone to be upset at getting conned.
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The Inventor: Out for Blood in Silicon Valley / int_b8e38fc5	comment	Metaphorically True: Theranos used conventional laboratories with her competitors' technology to do the vast majority of her blood tests.
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The Inventor: Out for Blood in Silicon Valley / int_ba5bd7	comment	Ignored Expert: Doctor Phyllis Gardner gives a Only Sane Man response in several segments, pointing out that none of Elizabeth's invention ideas could ever work.
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The Inventor: Out for Blood in Silicon Valley / int_bc37d80d	comment	So Proud of You: It takes George Shultz years to believe his grandson Tyler's insistence that Holmes' speeches don't match the hard data collection. Once he's realized he backed Theranos over his family, he praises Tyler for sticking to his morals in the face of such overwhelming pressure.
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The Inventor: Out for Blood in Silicon Valley / int_c396fef9	comment	Ponzi: A non-money based example where Theranos worked by doing blood tests using their competitor's technology while pretending that they were using their better known but nonfunctional technology.
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The Inventor: Out for Blood in Silicon Valley / int_d280a296	comment	Teen Genius: Elizabeth was nineteen when she made her groundbreaking "invention." Subverted in the fact it was science fiction.
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The Inventor: Out for Blood in Silicon Valley / int_d34cbda2	comment	Implausible Deniability: Elizabeth Holmes claimed that she had no knowledge of her technology not working at one point.
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The Inventor: Out for Blood in Silicon Valley / int_d8573ef9	type	Screw the Rules, I Have Connections!
The Inventor: Out for Blood in Silicon Valley / int_d8573ef9	comment	Screw the Rules, I Have Connections!: Holmes and her company cozied up to people like George Shultz, Henry Kissinger, Joe Biden, and various other people with big political connections, likely in the aim of bypassing FDA regulations that would prove their testing doesn't work.
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The Inventor: Out for Blood in Silicon Valley / int_ff7e9adf	comment	Hair of Gold, Heart of Gold: Elizabeth Holmes stated her primary motivation was to help people be diagnosed for diseases earlier. Heavily Subverted in the end.
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