If you ever wondered what exactly led to Theranos founder Elizabeth Holmes’s demise, you’re in luck.
HBO just announced that its brand-new documentary, The Inventor: Out for Blood in Silicon Valley, will premiere on Monday, March 18, at 9 p.m. The two-hour film documents Holmes’s rise and fall as an entrepreneur, and yes, it’s pretty much the TV version of the New York Times best-selling book Bad Blood and subsequent hit podcast The Dropout.
The Inventor features a slew of interviews with former Theranos employees, including Dave Philippides, Douglas Matje, Ryan Wistort, Tony Nugent and—of course—the two whistleblowers, Tyler Shultz and Erika Cheung. The movie will also include a well-deserved cameo by John Carreyrou, the journalist who originally broke the story in The Wall Street Journal and authored Bad Blood.
It all started back in 2003 when Holmes dropped out of Stanford to start her own business that would “democratize healthcare.” In 2014, Theranos was valued at $9 billion, making Holmes—who was dubbed “the next Steve Jobs”—the youngest self-made female billionaire in the world. Fast-forward to 2018, and the SEC cited Theranos with “massive fraud,” declaring it worthless.
