Exclusive: How Elizabeth Holmes’s House of Cards Came Tumbling Down. The War Room. It was late morning on Friday, October 1. Elizabeth Holmes. She finally had to address her. Theranos, the blood- testing start- up that she had founded. Stanford dropout, which was now valued at some $9.
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Two days earlier, a damning report published in The Wall Street Journal had alleged that the company was, in effect, a sham—that its. Theranos. administered almost all of its blood tests using competitors’ equipment. The article created tremors throughout Silicon Valley, where Holmes, the. Curiosity about the veracity of the Journal. Palo. Alto headquarters, which was nearing the end of a $6.
Everyone at Theranos, from its scientists to its marketers. For two days, according to insiders, Holmes, who is now 3. Instead, she remained largely holed up in a.
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Half- empty food. Ramesh “Sunny” Balwani, then Theranos’s president and C. O. O.; Heather. King, the company’s general counsel; lawyers from Boies, Schiller &.
Flexner, the intrepid law firm; and crisis- management consultants. Most. of the people in the war room had been there for two days and nights. There was also an.
At Theranos, Holmes preferred that the. Steve. Jobs. Holmes had learned a lot from Jobs. Like Apple, Theranos was secretive. Just as Jobs had famously insisted at 1 Infinite Loop. Holmes largely. forbade her employees from communicating with one another about what.
At Theranos, Holmes was founder, C. E. O., and. chairwoman. There wasn’t a decision—from the number of American flags.
And like Jobs, crucially, Holmes also paid indefatigable attention to. Theranos was not simply. In interviews, Holmes reiterated that Theranos’s proprietary. In a. technology sector populated by innumerable food- delivery apps, her. Holmes adorned the covers of Fortune. Forbes, and Inc., among other publications. She was profiled in The New.
Yorker and featured on a segment of Charlie Rose. In the process, she. Theranos blood- testing machines. By Jim Wilson/The New York Times/Redux.
One of the only journalists who seemed unimpressed by this narrative was. John Carreyrou, a recalcitrant health- care reporter from The Wall Street Journal. Carreyrou came away from The New Yorker story surprised by.
Theranos’s secrecy—such behavior was to be expected at a tech company. Moreover, he was also struck by Holmes’s. When The New Yorker.
Theranos’s technology, she responded, somewhat. Shortly after reading the article, Carreyrou started investigating. Theranos’s medical practices.
As it turned out, there was an underside. Theranos’s story that had not been told—one that involved. Soon after. Carreyrou began his reporting, David Boies, the superstar lawyer—and.
Theranos board member—who had taken on Bill Gates in the 1. Al Gore during the 2. Florida recount case, visited the. Journal newsroom for a five- hour meeting. Boies subsequently returned to.
Journal to meet with the paper’s editor in chief, Gerard Baker. The most cogent suggestion. Theranos—its name an amalgam of “therapy” and “diagnosis.”. But no scientist could credibly vouch for Theranos. Under Holmes’s. direction, the secretive company had barred other scientists from. Absent a plan, Holmes embarked on a familiar course—she doubled down. She left the war room for her car—she is often.
C. E. O. During the trip, Holmes fielded calls from her advisers in. She and her team decided on an interview with Jim Cramer. CNBC’s Mad Money, with whom she had a friendship that dated. It was quickly arranged.
Cramer generously began the interview by asking Holmes what had. Holmes, who talks slowly and deliberately, and blinks with. Jobs. A. company- wide e- mail instructed technicians in lab coats, programmers in. T- shirts and jeans, and a slew of support staff to meet in the. There, Holmes, with Balwani at her side, began an eloquent. As she continued, Holmes grew more. The Journal, she said, had gotten the story wrong.
She handed the stage to Balwani, who echoed her sentiments. After he wrapped up, the leaders of Theranos stood before their. They were. chanting with fervor: “Fuck you, Carreyrou!,” they cried out.
Carrey- rou!”The Game. In Silicon Valley, every company has an origin story—a fable, often. These origin stories can provide a unique, and uniquely. Valley. After all, while Silicon Valley is. It generally works like this: the venture capitalists (who are mostly.
The entrepreneurs (also mostly white. Yo!” (and only “Yo!”) to your friends. The entrepreneurs generally. And this also helps.
The. financial rewards speak for themselves. Silicon Valley, which is 5.
She was building a company. And, as a then dark- haired. Stanford University’s School of Chemical.
Engineering, she already comported herself in a distinctly Jobsian. She adopted black turtlenecks, would boast of never taking a. She quoted Jane Austen by. What I really want out of life is to. And it was this instinct, she said, coupled with a childhood.
Holmes had indeed mastered the Silicon Valley game. Revered venture. capitalists, such as Tim Draper and Steve Jurvetson, invested in her. Marc Andreessen called her the next Steve Jobs. She was plastered on the. TV shows, and offered keynote- speaker. In others, however, it.
Valley’s own narcissism. Finally, it seemed, there was a. Valley’s vision of.
The original Theranos laboratory, in Palo Alto, 2. By Drew Kelly. Holmes’s real story, however, was a little more complicated. When she. first came up with the precursor to the idea of Theranos, which. Stanford, according to someone who knew Holmes back then. As Gardner explained, it is impossible to get a precise result.
Theranos would claim. When a finger is pricked, the probe breaks up. While it is feasible to test for pathogens this way. But Holmes was nothing if not determined. Money often comes with strings attached. Silicon Valley, but even by its byzantine terms, Holmes’s were. She took the money on the condition that she would not divulge.
This surreptitiousness. When Google Ventures, which focuses more than. Theranos to weigh an investment, Theranos never.
Eventually, Google Ventures sent a venture capitalist to a. Theranos Walgreens Wellness Center to take the revolutionary pinprick. One of Holmes’s first major hires, thanks to an. Channing Robertson, was Ian Gibbons, an accomplished. British scientist who had a slew of degrees from Cambridge University.
He had never owned a pair of jeans and spoke with a British accent. In 2. 00. 5, Holmes named him. Gibbons, who was diagnosed with cancer shortly after joining the. Theranos, but. the most glaring was simple: the results were off.
This conclusion soon. Gibbons to realize that Holmes’s invention was more of an idea than. Still, bound by the scientific method, Gibbons wanted to try. So, for years, while. Holmes put her fund- raising talents to use—hiring hundreds of.
Oscar- winning filmmaker Errol Morris, who was commissioned to make short. Gibbons would wake early, walk his dogs along.
A. M. Holmes adorned her headquarters and Web. One tiny drop changes everything,” and. All the same tests. One tiny sample,” and went into media overdrive. In 2. 01. 2, for instance. Holmes began talking to the Department of Defense about using Theranos’s.
Afghanistan. But specialists at the. F. D. A. He immediately e- mailed his. Mattis was later added to. As the suit progressed—it was.
Fuisz’s lawyers issued subpoenas to Theranos. But Gibbons didn’t want to testify. If he. told the court that the technology did not work, he would harm the.
The late scientist Ian Gibbons. Holmes, meanwhile, did not seem willing to tolerate his resistance. Rochelle Gibbons. Even though Gibbons had warned. Holmes was preparing to.
Theranos Wellness Centers” in dozens of Walgreens across. Arizona. He started to be very vocal. They kept. him around to keep him quiet.” Channing Robertson, who had brought. Gibbons to Theranos, recalls a different conversation, noting, “He. A few months later, on May 1.
Gibbons was sitting in the family. Rochelle, the afternoon light draping the couple, when the.
It was one of Holmes’s assistants. When. Gibbons hung up, he was beside himself. She told him she thought he was going to be. Later that evening, gripped and overwhelmed with worry, Ian.
Gibbons tried to commit suicide. He was rushed to the hospital. A week. later, with his wife by his side, Ian Gibbons died. When Rochelle called Holmes’s office to explain what had happened, the. She told. Rochelle Gibbons that she would let Holmes know immediately. But a few. hours later, rather than a condolence message from Holmes, Rochelle.
Theranos demanding that. Theranos property. The Enforcer. In hundreds of interviews with the media and on panels, Holmes honed her. She talked about how she didn’t play with. Barbies as a child, and how her father, Christian Holmes IV, who worked. Enron before going on to work in a.
Washington, was one of her idols. Besides the. turtlenecks, Holmes’s proprietary blood- analysis device, which she named. Edison” after Thomas Edison, resembled Jobs’s Ne. XT computer. She. Theranos office with Le Corbusier black leather chairs, a. Jobs favorite. She also adhered to a strange diet of only green juices.
Like Jobs, too, her company was. She rarely ever left the office, only going home to sleep.
To. celebrate her birthday, Holmes held a party at Theranos headquarters. And while Jobs had a fearsome. Apple’s headquarters, Holmes had a single enforcer: Sunny. Balwani, the company’s president and chief operating officer, until he. May. Balwani, who had previously worked at Lotus and. Microsoft, had no experience in medicine.
He was hired in 2. Nevertheless, he was soon put in charge of the company’s. According to a number of people with knowledge of the situation, the two. Holmes took a trip to. China after she graduated from high school. The two eventually started.
Among Holmes’s security detail, Balwani was. Eagle 2.”When employees questioned the accuracy of the company’s blood- testing. Balwani who would chastise them in e- mails (or in. This must stop,” as The Wall. Street Journal reported. He ensured that scientists and engineers at.
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