The technology needed to catch up to the dream. Holmes and business partner Sunny Balwani continued to make grandiose claims - going so far as to fake demos for investors - while even their own staff and engineers told them their vision couldn't be realized. And she didn't let little things stop her, like the fact that it was impossible. Combining the words "therapy" and "diagnosis," she started a company with the intention of revolutionizing phlebotomy, replacing extensive and expensive blood tests with a machine that could divine diseases from a drop of blood. Holmes dropped out of Stanford to found Theranos, inspired by a desire to help people like an uncle suffering from cancer. On the face of it, the story of a callow young entrepreneur might seem like a contrast, but the documentary exposes how Theranos and Silicon Valley are built on foundations of deep-rooted power, money and privilege no matter how much they protest to the contrary.Įlizabeth Holmes in the labs of Theranos, a company she founded with a dark secret. His documentaries often deal with entrenched, intertwined influence and abuses of power fueled by vast amounts of money. The Inventor is directed by Oscar-winning documentarian Alex Gibney, who, with films like The Smartest Guys in the Room, Taxi to the Dark Side and Going Clear, previously aimed at the likes of Enron, Wikileaks and the Church of Scientology. But The Inventor explores how this specific case of Silicon Valley fraud exposes deeper problems in the way we look at the future and who builds it. On one level, it could be like the Fyre Festival documentaries that encouraged us to laugh at rich people screwing up outrageously.
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