Theranos whistleblower barely recognizes Elizabeth Holmes in new documentary: ‘The Elizabeth that I knew completely commanded a room’

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Theranos whistleblower barely recognizes Elizabeth Holmes in new documentary: ‘The Elizabeth that I knew completely commanded a room’

Tyler Shultz says the Theranos device Holmes shows off in "You Can See Everything" isn’t the one that was used on patients. He says the film lets her keep shaping her own story.

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A once-commanding CEO now looks broken. But according to one of the whistleblowers who helped expose Theranos, Elizabeth Holmes hasn’t stopped trying to control the narrative. The new documentary You Can See Everything, directed by Nathan Fielder and Lance Oppenheim, is drawing crowds to theaters. It earned an estimated $15 million in its opening weekend, the second-biggest documentary debut ever, behind only Michael Moore’s Fahrenheit 9/11. The film follows Holmes in the final weeks before she reported to prison in 2023. Years after the Theranos scandal erupted, Holmes still maintains she never lied, despite her 2022 conviction for defrauding investors. Tyler Shultz, a former Theranos research engineer who helped expose the company’s faulty blood-testing technology, barely recognized the woman on screen. “The Elizabeth that I knew completely commanded a room, even if that room was full of secretaries of state, secretaries of defense, generals, senators. She would own a room,” Shultz…

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