The board of Theranos and federal regulators did not oversee operations to an acceptable extent. Furthermore, potential whistleblowers were met with threats of lawsuits. This toxic culture was purely unsustainable. False representation is a serious offense in business, and in the medical industry, it is purely unacceptable.
didn’t actually exist. And the technology might never be a reality — at least not in the way Holmes described it. In this episode of our three-part series on Theranos, we look at what researchers actually think is possible in the field of blood testing ...
Theranos failed because it was a scam. They promised the moon in the area of blood testing. They didn’t even deliver rocks. Their technology did not work, nor was it even close. Originally Answered: What was the main reason for the collapse of Theranos (company)?
The Theranos Fraud In A Nutshell
In the Hulu series The Dropout, lawyer Linda Tanner (Michaela Watkins) is part of Theranos's in-house legal team, and she unintentionally plays a role in the death of chemist Ian Gibbons (Stephen Fry).
16, 2021. SAN JOSE, Calif. -- In his last effort to persuade the jury that Elizabeth Holmes is guilty of fraud, Assistant U.S. Attorney Jeffrey Schenk said Theranos' founder chose to deceive investors and patients, a choice that “was not only callous, it was criminal.”
Holmes "chose fraud over business failure," Schenk said, adding that "she chose to be dishonest with her investors and with her patients." "That choice was not only callous, it was criminal," he continued. Elizabeth Holmes leaves court, Dec. 16, 2021, in San Jose, Calif.
Sunny Balwani, former president of Theranos Inc., arrives at federal court in March 2022. After working at companies like Microsoft and Lotus, Sunny made his riches after founding his e-commerce startup CommerceBid at the peak of the dot-com bubble in the late 90s.
Story: Big name investors among Theranos biggest losers For instance, the Wall Street Journal reported, the Devos family lost an estimated $100 million in their investment while Murdoch lost $125 million and the Walton family lost $150 million.
“He said he could not believe that anybody could get in front of these men and women who are willing to put their lives in front of our country and lie directly to their face as convincingly as she lied,” he added. George Shultz died in February 2021.
2016 Billionaires Net Worth Forbes named Holmes the world's youngest self-made woman billionaire--worth $4.5 billion--in 2014, when she was 30 years old. Starting in 2015, Theranos' technology came into question; reporting by The Wall Street Journal revealed that Theranos was using other companies' machines.
Christian Holmes VElizabeth Holmes / Brother
Balwani is represented by Jeffrey Bruce Coopersmith, Stephen A. Cazares, Aaron Paul Brecher and Amy Walsh of Orrick Herrington & Sutcliffe LLP. The case is U.S. v. Holmes et al., case number 5:18-cr-00258, in the U.S. District Court for the Northern District of California.
He Invested $13 Million Into Theranos "It was interest-free. It was a good-faith loan." Six months later, in late 2009, Balwani was made the president and COO of the company, in spite of the fact he didn't have experience in science or lab testing.
Keiko FujimotoSunny Balwani / Spouse (m. ?–2002)
Sunny is played by Lost star Naveen Andrews. Elizabeth was convicted of fraud in January and will be sentenced in September, per The New York Times. She's facing up to 80 years in prison, NBC News reported.
At the end of 2020, Boies Schiller Flexner employed around 200 lawyers. Previously it employed just over 300. It boasts a high-powered client list including Facebook, American Express, Chevron, Delta, Barclays, Oracle and Sony. The firm, founded in 1997, has offices in New York, Miami, Washington, D.C., San Francisco, Los Angeles and London.
Another leader might soon be out the door: Harrison, who recently stepped down as deputy chair. Boies once said Harrison, who is based in London and is also a managing partner, was in line to be his successor. People familiar with the situation said Harrison could now end up leaving Boies Schiller.
Harrison was one of many Boies Schiller leaders and firm employees who were disturbed by the original domestic abuse allegations levied against Josh Schiller, a partner at the firm and the son of Jonathan Schiller, according to people familiar with the matter.
Another Schiller son, Aaron Schiller, runs an architecture company, Schiller Projects, which has done business with the law firm. Schiller Projects designed three offices for Boies Schiller, including its new office in New York’s Hudson Yards complex and offices in San Francisco and Washington.
Boies, meanwhile, can’t seem to escape the fact that he extensively helped both Weinstein and Theranos.
Theranos was an American privately held corporation that was touted as a breakthrough health technology company. Founded in 2003 by 19-year-old Elizabeth Holmes, Theranos raised more than US$700 million from venture capitalists and private investors, resulting in a $10 billion valuation at its peak in 2013 and 2014. The company claimed that it devised blood tests that required very small amounts of blood and could be performed rapidly, thanks to the small autom…
Theranos claimed to have developed devices to automate and miniaturize blood tests using microscopic blood volumes. Theranos dubbed its blood collection vessel the "nanotainer" and its analysis machine the "Edison". Holmes reportedly named the device "Edison" after inventor Thomas Edison, stating, "We tried everything else and it failed, so let's call it the Edison." This was likely because of a well-known Edison quote: "I've not failed. I've just found 10,000 ways that won…
John Carreyrou, a Wall Street Journal journalist whose work exposed Theranos, published a book-length treatment in May 2018 titled Bad Blood: Secrets and Lies in a Silicon Valley Startup. A film version was reportedly scheduled for release in 2020, starring Jennifer Lawrence as Elizabeth Holmes, written by Vanessa Taylor and directed by Adam McKay. In January 2022, McKay stated that preparations for the film had resumed, and that Lawrence was working on learning Holmes' …
• Ian Gibbons, Theranos's chief scientist who died by suicide in 2013
• Richard Fuisz, defendant in a patent related lawsuit filed by Theranos and its CEO
• Official website (Archived)
• Theranos patents at USPTO
• Theranos Original Pitchdeck 2006, "A Presentation for Investors"
• "Elizabeth Holmes on Her Billion-Dollar Health Care Idea", Charlie Rose via YouTube, June 3, 2015.