• Asetru@feddit.org
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    12 hours ago

    The woman is Elizabeth Holmes, the Theranos fraud.

    The what?

    Just kidding, I just looked it up myself. She started a company with a product that didn’t exist… that’s all?

    The whole story reads a bit underwhelming. But I guess it was a big deal if there is now a movie about it.

    • fake@sh.itjust.works
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      10 hours ago

      Not really a movie, just some guy followed her around a bit before she went to prison. She isn’t inherently interesting, just I think people are fascinated by a twisted mind like this. Especially because the documentary/whatever apparently doesn’t paint her in a good light, and she still allowed it. Delusional from start to end.

      Surprised you’d never heard of Theranos before though. ColdFusion did a great short doco on it.

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        4 hours ago

        She’s also really representative of the tech world of the late 10s on. SBF was juicer in drama, but Holmes is wild in what she managed to get away with and how long it took before anyone noticed it wasn’t physically possible to do what she claimed