no one: Elizabeth Holmes: 👁 👁 👃🏻 👄

The fact she became a billionaire without doing anything real is actually hilarious and shows these institutional investors are not as smart as we think lol

As a lab tech for 35 years I knew this was physically impossible. Imagine my surprise when I saw a sign outside the drugstore!

It's just so hard to imagine that an investor would hand over 100M, without hiring some expert for like 50K to go spend a week or 2 investigating/researching the company to check if they actually had a working product and business model.

"you swear to tell the truth" *fake voice* "i do"

Maybe those extra chemical engineering classes would have helped

successful people don't become that way overnight.most people you see as a glance-wealth, a great career, purpose-is the result of hard work and hustle over time. I pray that anyone who reads this will be successful in life..

I love the “I’m not wearing makeup now. I’m just a normal, relatable human being.” look she goes for once caught. 100% a very clever manipulator changing her skin like a chameleon as it suits her.

Expectation: "Theranos is the Apple of healthcare". Reality: "Theranos is the Fyre Festival of healthcare"

"Obsessed with Steve Jobs" should have been the first red flag.

I'm still amazed how Elizabeth Holmes sold the idea to so many billionaire investors without ever being questioned about the practicality of it. Even if her idea was plausible in the real world, it would take lots of knowledge combining biochemistry, medicine, and engineering. Considering she dropped out after freshman year, there was no way anyone like her could have that much combined knowledge and experience to achieve something like that. I wonder, if the investors ever asked her who developed these machines and what's the principle behind it? Granted, hype can push you a long way in Silicon Valley, but this was not developing a software app, she was playing with people's lives. How come these investors didn't worry about the risk factor?

As a medical student, this story is so upsetting to me. In the medical field, we always joke about how investigations for a patient with vague symptoms is “bloods, bloods and more bloods”. But beneath that joke is the undeniable fact that accurate blood test results are vital for medical professionals to guide clinical decision making and provide management plans for patients. Theranos was lying to patients and doctors and putting patients’ lives at risk.

So at 19 she claimed to have invented technology that she didn’t have and no one ever checked her? They just blindly believed her?

What if her 2 very last classes were titled "Why it's scientifically impossible to test a drop of blood for 250 diseases." And "Ethics."

The reply email sent by Holmes says it all. When a narcissist is caught they get outraged. No guilt, no shame. They will even attack the person that exposed them.

I have to give my PCP a lot of credit. I asked him about Theranos a decade ago when Holmes was making big headlines. He laughed and said they're faking it and it would never work. He was spot on accurate.

“I was at the point where a few more chemical engineering classes wasn’t necessary for what I wanted to do.”....... apparently they were honey

I'm a 6 foot 3 black man and her voice is deeper than mine

Her voice gives me the creeps.

Holmes: “First they think you’re crazy, then they fight you….and then all of a sudden you change the world.” Cramer: “Why are you talking like a fucking bullfrog?” Holmes: 😦

She tried so hard to become the next Steve Jobs and she ended up as Steve Jobless LOL

never trust a girl who doesn't blink and has a sound similar to F650 Diesel truck

Also, in order to do diagnostics you need a statistically significant sample. This involves taking large amounts of blood to run that many medical tests, versus a drop. You can’t get both serum calcium levels & white blood cell count from a drop. Which negates the possibility of 100s of blood tests from a drop to begin with. It’s a bit shocking how anyone believed this malarkey.

The fact that everyone on her board were old coots speaks volumes.

She is not a Self-made success story. Her father was Vice President of Enron and was was worth millions.

Elizabeth dropping out of college because she thought she didn't need a few more classes reminds me of the "Dunning-Kruger effect". The less knowledge you have on a subject, the more you risk being over-confident about said knowledge, while the more you learn the more you realize how much you don't know. Had she taken those classes, she might have realized she wasn't the expert she thought she was.

"He seemed an odd choice...." WRONG. He was exactly the kind of con artist fraud that she was looking for to help her take her scam to the next level.

As someone with a relative affected by early-indicating health issues that are life changing, insane that she is not locked up for the maximum time permissible under the law. This should not ever be promoted to happen again. This is what government is there to prevent. Greed, hubris. So selfish.

I’m mostly amazed that Walgreens cut the deal without having any medical proof.

no one: elizabeth holmes: 😳

I can’t approve of most of what Elizabeth Holmes and Theranos did, but I’ve got to admit that taking away hundreds of millions of dollars from the likes of Rupert Murdoch and Betsy DeVos is a real public service.

Bill looked all excited thinking about her being 19.

Girl, you should've stay in college.

Apparently she wasn't that bright in high school either, a "C" student. Using her dad connections, she back-door her way into Stanford.

*That's why teaching ethics to our kids are very important in life.*

She has the eyes one someone who seems to be engaged and attentive. Look closer though, and you see what's lacking: empathy, a moral conscience and truthfulness. Her proclivity to lying is a chilling reminder of the individual's capacity to self-delude and choose the shadow-nature in us.

In related news, Elizabeth will be launching a music festival next month. VIP tickets start at $1000.

Comb your hair, blink your eyes, drop your fake deep voice and confess the truth, lady. About time!

To be fair, there may not be a woman Steve Jobs but there’s definitely the Madoff female versions, younger and upgraded.

We loved The Dropout podcast. Very well done. We listened to every episode so many times. Bad Blood was also very good.

19 is a very young age to become crazy. I guess she was always crazy.

This is like the Fyre festival of healthcare

Her own malignant narcissistic personality and lust for the limelight were the proverbial shovel that dug her own grave. Otherwise known as a long jail sentence. We must pray that the United States judicial system doesn't screw this one up too. 😠

It s just a blessing that no one lost their life and/ or big time law suits had not been a part of this story. It could have been much much worse.

I think she should have been compelled to use her real voice under oath.

Tyler Schultz is the true hero of this awful story. The amount of harassment and threats he went through would have made most people give in. If Theranos had not been exposed people would have died.

Her father was a VP at Enron: Her father, Christian Rasmus Holmes IV, was a vice president at Enron, an energy company that later went bankrupt after an accounting fraud scandal. (wikipedia) She saw how easy it was to fool people.

Man! I wanted to see the whole report

I know you're not supposed to judge a book by its cover, but her crazy stalker eyes should have been an indicator for the investors

She sounds like she's her own witness protection program

Yup..True story, I'm a phlebotomist in AZ the hospital I worked at had these vials which we all thought was a great idea however, they would clot before promptly expediting to the lab or were having to redo test with regular syringe and tubes....I witnessed this process it was very frustrating it was never accurate. The concept is ideal if they get it to work. She truly is manipulative, thinks she's smart (Con) and looney at the same time .

Educational and concise, good vid

The only reason Schultz didn't believe his grandson is because he had so much money invested in this product already. Money will make you turn against your own blood.

Tyler Schulz is my hero. He used his privilege in the best way one can.

This reminds me of my start up experience, where fraud was happening too. When I had a question about something in the daily business and asked one of the ceo's coo's( or whatever they called themselves, we were only 4 people) the answer that I would get was very visionary but useless for my problem. I was new and it took me a while to realize that there is a massive difference between technology at the time and vision.

i feel so bad for the people she scammed, and those people they tested. people say “why did they believe her”, manipulation is a powerful thing, she went to stanford, this was the next big thing, investors wanted to jump on it as soon as possible.

The Walgreens CEO should be fired immediately.

Yeah, maybe don't put people on the cover of your magazine ...who haven't actually done anything yet.

Can we get a full video of the deposition please?

It is terrifying that so many people believed her and gave her their time & money, but it's equally as terrifying that she believed what she was portraying & saying to the public about her company. DELUSIONAL.

What kind of fyre fest is this?

She was facing 20 years in prison... did she complete her 7 hours community service yet?

And a serial killer What would have happened to patients due to a wrong diagnosis. Quite despicable

Fascinating story.

This is one we CAN blame on the media. They kept telling us how much of a genius she was, built up her ego, and now they are wondering how people came to believe in her.

Her father was VP for ENRON. Family sure knows how to scam investors and the public.

“This is what happens when you work to change things. First they think you’re crazy, then they fight you, then *all of a sudden* you change the world.” This quote tells me all I need to know about her. You can tell she’s mindlessly consumed so many entrepreneurial motivation videos. You don’t just *all of a sudden* change the world. You actually have to have a functioning revolutionary idea first.

Her: I need you to loan me 10 million dollars for my business Investor: Uh, no. Her: 👁‍🗨👄👁‍🗨 Investor: Just take the money!

I’m floored at how this company was worth soooo much money with a product that NEVER worked. How did that happen?!

Thank you for allowing/responsibility have an opinion shown and not stopping a response to respond. Not all opinions want to hate and hurt, I only would like to respond to a point of view that hurt, warms my mind or would like the opportunity to disagree after being given information that is not about being restricted to watching something that make a human feel something but watch it and don’t say anything. Any opinion pit on the internet needs the right to say you are wrong, you are wrong, you hurt me, you helped me. What ever the response, regulations I believe should allow a voice and also completely protect any source that take a financial gain or following from.

I can tell only one thing that respectful gentleman brought up a decent grandson to this world !

_Do you swear to tell the truth the whole truth and nothing but the truth?_ _I do_ Says in fake voice!

Darth Vadar called..he wants his voice back.

Watch TED talk - Erica Cheung! No weird background music at all, just beautiful talk, without any gimmicks, all straight from this amazing whistleblower, Erica Cheung!

Thank you young man whistleblower

just look at how she put her eyeliner on her entire eyelids. that speaks volumes.

"Why would I need more engineering classes? I was developing a Ponzi scheme"

Elizabeth said that Th’er’anos was going to be Marvelous and the technology would help at least 50% of all people.

Everyone like to say they knew this wasn’t possible. As a field engineer for medical equipment, I had a feeling it wasn’t, but dreaded the possibility. These things would have been EVERYWHERE and needing constant repair.

It ony take one brave person to spill the truth. Tyler Shultz just saved a lot of money for alot of people.

She wanted to be steve but looks like mark

This is a good video.

How did I miss this? I am on twitter and KZfaq every day🤦

The lizard people messed up on this model. Her eyes were increased by 0.50x and don’t scan the humans around her to mimic their blinking patterns. Send her back to the warehouse ,along with her twinned lizard ZUCChini, for her to get eye and brain adjustments. That specific warehouse will be given raise from The Committee, if they program her to be able to use a comb. Much thanks. - Agent Number X

"Do you promise to tell the Truth, the whole truth and Nuthin but.....JESUS WILL YOU PLEASE BLINK!!!"

If anyone remembers the story "the Emperor's clothes"???? I feel so sorry for the patients that had such horrifying experiences. And no apology, no accountability.

How you don't believe your own blood 😂 get it your own blood I crack my self up like I would crack that machine

Stealing from the rich will get you in a lot of trouble.

She reminds me of Mark Zuckerberg, like they were made in the same lab.

Take the "er" out of Theranos and you'll know why the company is so evil.

She Really Showed How HUMBLE She Was, She IS!!! 🙈

I feel like Theranos is just like my middle school research projects. I would like make an “invention” but like half-assed explaining how it works

Lol this woman reminds me of that crazy wife in Gone Girl

man, those eyes are eerie.

What is the product?

Elizabeth: I just wanted to change the world ... Someone : Are you lying again? Elizabeth: 👁👁

I can’t wrap my head around her voice. Also, looks like she should’ve finished those few remaining chemistry classes in college, LOL

This should be a movie

The thing to note here is how easy it is for some people promoting a con or other type of fraud to get money 💰 when a perfectly hard-working legitimate person is denied funding opportunities.

Do you swear to tell the truth the whole truth and nothing but the truth? Question 1: is that your real voice?