Alex Gibney on the Fall of Theranos and Elizabeth Holmes

In some ways Elizabeth was an outlier, and it is true that a lot of the powerful Silicon Valley VCs did not invest in her because they didn’t see the evidence and they were suspicious of her. In coming across Elizabeth Holmes, this was a powerful story that they really wanted to tell of a young female entrepreneur in male-dominated Silicon Valley who’s really coming up with something that was doing good. One thing that the documentary makes very visible is this long list of old men who seem to have been captivated by a very young woman: journalists Parloff, Ken Auletta and Charlie Rose; investors Don Lucas, Larry Ellison, Tim Draper and Rupert Murdoch; board members George Shultz, Henry Kissinger, Jim Mattis and Channing Robertson; and others, including Joe Biden and Bill Clinton.

Source: www.theguardian.com