In 2015 Elizabeth Holmes was the youngest self made female billionaire in the world, with two former secretaries of state on her board and a machine that she said could run hundreds of tests on a drop of blood. It could not. This episode follows the whole story: the Stanford dropout at nineteen, the black turtleneck and the borrowed voice, the secret partner who ran the company, the Walgreens deal that put real patients in front of a machine that did not work, the board of statesmen, the grandson who blew the whistle, the reporter who asked a scientist, the regulators, the trial and the prison sentence.
It also covers what happened to the investors' money, the book and the documentary, and what she says from prison now. Founder Stories tells the story of one founder per episode, told plainly and in order.
