The Inventor: Out for Blood in Silicon Valley is a documentary film directed by Alex Gibney. It covers the American biotechnology entrepreneur Elizabeth Holmes and her company Theranos. The documentary complements the book, Bad Blood: Secrets and Lies in a Silicon Valley Startup. The film was unveiled at the Sundance Film Festival in January 2019.
Here’s how you can watch and stream The Inventor: Out for Blood in Silicon Valley via streaming services such as HBO Max.
Is The Inventor: Out for Blood in Silicon Valley available to watch via streaming?
Yes, The Inventor: Out for Blood in Silicon Valley is available to watch via streaming on HBO Max.
Elizabeth Anne Holmes is a biotechnology innovator who set up her own company, Theranos, and hired Sunny Balwani as her COO. Together, they made pretty majestic claims of revolutionizing blood testing, saying that it would only require a small volume of blood to do so through their devices. Soon after its launch, the company reached a valuation of $10 billion, but within a decade, various sources revealed how Holmes’ biggest breakthrough was nothing more than a fraud, causing her to be convicted.
The Inventor: Out for Blood in Silicon Valley features interviews from Erika Cheung, Tyler Shultz, Dan Ariely, Roger Parloff, Ken Auletta, John Carreyrou, Phyllis Gardner, Rochelle Gibbons, and other people associated with Elizabeth Holmes or Theranos.
Watch The Inventor: Out for Blood in Silicon Valley streaming via HBO Max
The Inventor: Out for Blood in Silicon Valley is available to watch on HBO Max.
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The Inventor: Out for Blood in Silicon Valley’s official synopsis is as follows:
“With a magical new invention that promised to revolutionize blood testing, Elizabeth Holmes became the world’s youngest self-made billionaire, heralded as the next Steve Jobs. Then, overnight, her 10-billion-dollar company dissolved. The rise and fall of Theranos is a window into the psychology of fraud.”
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