The Story of Billy Evans and ‘Theranos 2.0’
Source: Wired ·
Elizabeth Holmes’ husband is a major figure in Nathan Fielder’s new documentary. But who is Billy Evans—and is he really working on a second blood-testing company?
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Warning: Light movie spoilers below. Read at your own risk. Even before becoming the stars of Nathan Fielder and Lance Oppenheim’s much-buzzed-about new documentary, Elizabeth Holmes and Billy Evans were a special kind of couple. Holmes “may have ultimately failed to change the world in the way she set out,” Evans wrote in a letter at the time of Holmes’ sentencing in 2022, “but she has undeniably changed mine.” The Theranos founder, in the hardest years of her life, taught her husband “a patience” that he “would have previously dismissed as unnecessary and soft.” She brought out his inner light, another sentencing letter from a friend of the couple reports: When they returned from a “monthslong camping trip,” Evans “displayed a new level of compassion in his demeanor, a strong sense of intention with his actions, and a heightened desire to listen to and look at others with purpose.” Whatever others might think, Evans was saying, Holmes wasn’t the only one of the pair that had been…