Elizabeth Holmes, founder of the disgraced medical tech company Theranos, was once seen as the embodiment of Silicon Valley. In some sense, she still is, although for dramatically different reasons.
Hulu's limited TV series The Dropout tells Holmes' story over a decade, from her career's humble start in a run-down office building where gunshots flew nearby to a palatial headquarters when the company's valuation was hitting $9 billion. Theranos sold a blood-testing technology that, according to its own hype, would revolutionize preventive medicine by scanning for a litany of potential diseases in a tiny draw of blood. It won Holmes glowing profiles in major media outlets and forged a corporate board that included former Secretary of State George Shultz.
