The Dropout

She had the world at the tip of her finger.

The story of Elizabeth Holmes, the enigmatic Stanford dropout who founded medical testing start-up Theranos. Lauded as a Steve Jobs for the next tech generation and once worth billions of dollars, the myth crumbled when it was revealed that none of the tech actually worked, putting thousands of people's health in grave danger.

Created by

Elizabeth Meriwether

Original language

English

First aired

3 March 2022