So I just finished watching The Droupout (spoilers ahead) based on the story of Elizabeth Holmes and the Theranos scandal. Summary:
Girl (the show made her seem very intelligent but from actual accounts she seems mediocre at best. For example, She can’t even spell “banana”) drops out of college after freshman year. Raises 6 million from her parents and her parents wealthy friends to start a medical company and has no idea what she is doing.
This Skinny, white, blue-eyed blond idiot then raises more money promoting America and FOMO (almost all her money Seems to be raised by her convincing Boomers that have already missed out (e.g. one missed out investing in yahoo) they’re missing out on the next big thing, using the snowball effect.
Girl gets $25 million from her much older married boyfriend.
Girl cons more people and becomes the first “self-made female billionaire” even though the first 30 million came from family and family friends and her boyfriend.
Of course it’s all a sham, and all the investors are bigger idiots than she is.
Her head chemist (who actually seems to be a highly intelligent and good person – commits suicide because he is worried she will fire him and he needs health insurance (this is before the afca) and he is worried he won’t be able to get a job anywheres else in his 60s(he also has a tendency to get cancer). She doesn’t care and just want his computer back
Eventually she gets exposed and convicted of defrauding investors of billions of dollars. She also knowingly put people in serious life-threatening danger with her medical tests which didn’t work.
She faces up to 20 years in prison but currently she is free, she went to burning man, and she is dating some young playboy hotel heir. They live in a multi-million dollar mansion with multiple tennis courts. I doubt she will get a full year in a fancy prison
Tl; Dr: Elizabeth Holmes and Theranos and ultra-wealthy suck