Twenty-one Inspiring Movies for Entrepreneurs – Part 19

The Inventor: Out for Blood in Silicon Valley is a 2019 American documentary film, directed and produced by Alex Gibney. The film chronicles the rise and fall of Theranos, interspersed with footage of Holmes and her COO Sunny Balwani making grandiose proclamations about Theranos. It is considered a companion piece to the book, Bad Blood: Secrets and Lies in a Silicon Valley Startup. She hired former Stanford professor of medicine Phyllis Gardner and a phlebotomy trainer to train employees at Walgreens’ Theranos Wellness Centers. The Wall Street Journal’s John Carreyrou and Roger Parloff wrote influential articles that accused Theranos of massive misrepresentation of what their company was offering. Stephanie Seitz discussed the problems with people interpreting and ordering their own labwork, as well as problems with Theranos’s inconsistent results in Arizona.