Wistort reveals Theranos for what it was: a genius marketing campaign backed by a useless product. After telling his colleagues that there were serious and unresolvable issues with the Edison’s medical hardware, they would respond by telling him that he’s “not a Silicon Valley person,” and that he should “maybe work for another company.” The same people that ignored Wistort’s findings would then have two-hour brainstorming sessions centered around the name of the cloud that would store Theranos’ medical data. Theranos’ promised innovation manifested in the form of the “Edison,” a small black box that could accurately test a drop of blood for diseases without the need for intravenous needles. Ryan Wistort, a former researcher at the company, tells a story that exemplifies the omnipresent fraud at Theranos. Gibney fails to penetrate beyond the surface of the Theranos scandal and comes up with disappointingly few revelations about Holmes, the company’s infamous CEO. Within the past year, countless articles, a book and a serial podcast have all been created to investigate how biotech company Theranos deceived millions into believing they could revolutionize the medical world. In HBO’s “The Inventor: Out for Blood in Silicon Valley,” director Alex Glibney decides to jump on the already crowded Elizabeth Holmes bandwagon.
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