Bibliograph

The inventor, out for blood in Silicon Valley., HBO Documentary Films presents ; a Jigsaw production ; produced by Jessie Deeter, Erin Edeiken, Alex Gibney ; written and directed by Alex Gibney, DVD/Widescreen

Type

Label

The inventor, out for blood in Silicon Valley., HBO Documentary Films presents ; a Jigsaw production ; produced by Jessie Deeter, Erin Edeiken, Alex Gibney ; written and directed by Alex Gibney, DVD/Widescreen

Language

eng

Characteristic

videorecording

Main title

The inventor

Oclc number

1128278687

Responsibility statement

HBO Documentary Films presents ; a Jigsaw production ; produced by Jessie Deeter, Erin Edeiken, Alex Gibney ; written and directed by Alex Gibney

Runtime

119

Sub title

out for blood in Silicon Valley.

Summary

Academy Award winner Alex Gibney directs a documentary investigating the rise and fall of Theranos, the one-time multibillion-dollar healthcare company founded by Elizabeth Holmes. In 2004, Elizabeth Holmes dropped out of Stanford to start a company that was going to revolutionize healthcare. In 2014, Theranos was valued at $9 billion, making Holmes, who was touted as "the next Steve Jobs," the youngest self-made female billionaire in the world. Just two years later, Theranos was cited as a "massive fraud" by the SEC, and its value was less than zero. Drawing on extraordinary access to never-before-seen footage and testimony from key insiders, director Alex Gibney will tell a Silicon Valley tale that was too good to be true. With all the drama of a real-life heist film, the documentary examines how this could have happened and who is responsible, while exploring the psychology of deception

Technique

live action

resource.version

DVD/Widescreen

Classification