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Saturday, October 24, 2026

Theranos whistleblower barely recognizes Elizabeth Holmes in new documentary - Fortune

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 told CBS Mornings on Monday.

Now, he said, she looks like “a broken woman.” But he still doesn’t feel she’s owning up to her mistakes.

‘That is not the device’

In one scene, Holmes lays out the components of a Theranos blood-testing device on a kitchen table. She tells Fielder it could run hundreds of tests if the necessary chemistry were developed.

Shultz said that when he saw the scene in the theater, his wife had to stop him from shouting “THAT IS NOT THE DEVICE,” he wrote in an opinion...



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