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A24’s new documentary revives the topic of Theranos, pushing “Bad Blood” to the top of several categories on Amazon, and once again highlights the major controversy in the Holmes fraud case.
The fraud scandal involving Elizabeth Holmes, founder of American biotech startup Theranos, has once again attracted attention.wall Street Daily reporter John Carreyrou’s 2018 investigative book “Bad Blood: Secrets and Lies in a Silicon Valley Startup” is in the news again with the recent release of the new documentary “You Can See Everything.”Amazon Multiple book bestseller lists.
“You Can See Everything”, a three-hour documentary produced by A24, was filmed a month before Holmes was jailed in 2023.
According to Variety, as of Monday, “Bad Blood” was ranked No. 1 in Amazon’s three categories of “biomedical engineering,” “enterprise infrastructure,” and “venture investment.” It ranks 3,048th among all books on the site. This investigative work, which has been published for 8 years, has once again attracted the attention of readers due to the release of “You Can See Everything”.
“Bad Blood” is considered an important investigative work that reveals the rise and fall of Theranos. Carrero wrote an article in the Wall Street Journal and was the first to highlight major problems with Theranos blood testing technology in 2015. In the book, he described how Holmes convinced legendary Silicon Valley investors that the company had developed a revolutionary blood-testing device that could perform hundreds of tests with just a few drops of blood.
However, Theranos’ technology never worked as advertised. The company was dissolved in 2018, and its once-high valuation of $9 billion evaporated. Holmes went from being a high-profile Silicon Valley entrepreneurial star to one of the representatives of major scandals in the technology industry. Carreiro’s investigative reporting became a vital key in uncovering the incident.
After “Bad Blood” was published, it topped the New York Times bestseller list and remained on the newspaper’s various bestseller lists for more than 100 weeks. Carreyrou herself also confirmed that “you can see everything” and believed the shooting technique deserved Oscar recognition.
Holmes was convicted in 2022 of four counts of wire fraud and conspiracy related to Theranos, and was later sentenced to more than 11 years in federal prison. Despite this, she still maintains her innocence, a stance that becomes a recurring point of conflict in the new documentary.
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The release of the new documentary “You Can See Everything” produced by A24 has rekindled the outside world’s attention to the Theranos and Holmes scandals, resulting in the investigative book returning to No. 1 on many category lists.
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The book tells how Holmes convinced Silicon Valley investors that Theranos had developed revolutionary blood testing technology, but in reality the product never worked as advertised, ultimately becoming a huge fraud scam.
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Holmes was convicted on 4 counts in 2022, and later sentenced to more than 11 years in prison. It was filmed a month before he was captured in 2023; The new film also repeatedly shows her contradictory attitude as she still insists on her innocence.
