The Dropout on Hulu brings to the small screen the jaw-dropping and fascinating true story of Elizabeth Holmes and the collapse of her health technology company, Theranos.
Founded by Stanford dropout Holmes in 2003, Theranos sought to change the way blood testing operated in the U.S. by developing technology, known as the Edison, where 300 blood tests could be run using just one finger prick of blood.
Holmes would later find herself at the center of a fraud trial, accused of lying to investors and patients, and would eventually be found guilty of four counts of fraud.
The events at Theranos may have not played out in the way that they did were it not for the courageous work of whistleblowers, Tyler Shultz, Erika Cheung, and Adam Rosendorff.
Now that The Dropout is over, audiences want to know what happened to Tyler Shultz (played by Dylan Minnette), and where he is now.
Tyler Shultz, a biology major at Stanford, met Theranos CEO Elizabeth Holmes through his grandfather, former Secretary of State, George Shultz.
George Shultz was on the Theranos Board of Directors and had asked Holmes to offer Tyler Shultz a job opportunity. Shortly afterward, Tyler Shultz joined Theranos as an intern and was soon working full-time as a research engineer.
During his eight months at Theranos, he worked closely with Erika Cheung.
Together, they discovered Theranos had been removing outliers from its data, and therefore not producing accurate results and running...
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