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Hulu's The Dropout features whistleblower Erika Cheung who helped alert officials of Elizabeth Holmes' fraud.
Erika sounded the alarm along with two other whistleblowers who were also suspicious of the company and its technology.
She shared her story with The Washington Post and testified against Holmes in court.
Viewers are officially obsessed with the new Hulu mini-series The Dropout. The show tells the true story of how Elizabeth Holmes (played by Amanda Seyfried) duped investors and the world alike to fund (and believe in) the science behind her company Theranos, which she claimed could diagnose a slew of diseases in people by using a single drop of blood through a device that Holmes invented called the Edison. (She even got Walgreens to invest.)
Of the real-life people who saw the rise and fall of Theranos, one is Erika Cheung, a whistleblower who blew open the Theranos façade alongside fellow former employees Tyler Shultz and Adam Rosendorff. In 2020, Erika gave a TED talk, where she shared how she connected with Theranos at a job fair after graduating from the University of California Berkeley in 2013.
In Hulu's The Dropout, Erika is played by Camryn Mi-young Kim, who first appears in episode 6 of the series, which dropped on March 24th. But what happened to Erika Cheung in real life and where is show now?
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