Walters agrees that the idea of Holmes-once a bona fide media darling-as a rare woman startup founder in the Silicon Valley boys’ club “only made me more captivated and, frankly, let down by her downfall. When it turned out she was a fraud, it threw people for a loop and pulled them down the rabbit hole.” “She was going to be the first female to succeed on the scale of Zuckerberg and Steve Jobs. is a woman, and a young woman at that, in a world dominated by men,” Carreyrou said. In fact, “I think the chief reason people are so fascinated is that the main character. By comparison, it makes Fyre Festival’s infamous cheese sandwiches seem trivial.īut Holmes’s gender also likely looms large in the enduring pop cultural preoccupation with Theranos. Holmes “gambled in a very cavalier way with the public health,” Carreyrou said. The Theranos scheme seemed particularly egregious, with the startup claiming to take rapid-result blood tests with just a prick of a fingertip-but using technology that never quite worked and in some cases delivered false results that left patients worried their lives could be in jeopardy. “It really taps into a number of themes in this moment: truth, ambition, elitism, the ‘fake it until you make it’ ethos of Silicon Valley, and why some people are afforded every opportunity while others can barely tap into the system.” So why are we so (forgive us) bloody obsessed? Silicon Valley intrigue-the kind that has surrounded Jobs and Mark Zuckerberg-plays a part, according to Rebecca Jarvis, The Dropout host and ABC News’s chief business, technology, and economics correspondent. “There seems to be an insatiable appetite.” “For one thing, the book sales have been unbelievable,” the author told Vogue by phone, saying Bad Blood has sold more than 500,000 copies combined in the U.S. The mania hasn’t escaped Carreyrou’s attention.
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