Elizabeth Holmes spent some of her last days out of prison with a film crew. She was trying, it seems, to clear her name.
"You really feel you did nothing wrong?" Nathan Fielder, who co-directed the film "You Can See Everything," asks Holmes in the trailer. "I did not," she answers. Slated for theatrical release on Friday, the documentary had a surprise premiere at the Telluride Film Festival in September that brought Holmes back into the public eye.
Holmes built the now-dissolved blood-testing company Theranos to a multi-billion-dollar valuation and assembled a luminary-filled board of directors on the back of revolutionary promises, some of which never materialized. She was convicted on multiple counts of fraud in 2022 and sentenced to 135 months, or more than 11 years, in prison.
She argued in her trial defense that she believed Theranos' fledgling technology worked. In a Sept. 27 post on X, Holmes doubled down, writing: "I am fighting to prove my innocence."
Though it's impossible to see inside someone's head, onlookers have debated over the years whether Holmes was sincere in believing her own outlandish claims.
You may never work with someone as infamous and enigmatic as Holmes. But how do you handle a co-worker who appears to believe their own false statements? They might be charming, charismatic and earnest. You, and others, might desperately want to believe what they're saying. But when a pattern starts to emerge, you can't ignore it, because you could be left...
Elizabeth Holmes spent some of her last days out of prison with a film crew. She was trying, it seems, to clear her name. "You really feel you did nothing wrong?" Nathan Fielder, who co-directed th...