Show of the week
The Inventor: Out for Blood in Silicon Valley
Elizabeth Holmes has already been immortalized as the author of one this era’s great business cons, but we‘ve needed a screen account equal to the story. Oscar-winning director Alex Gibney captures how the passion of the young founder of Theranos won over high-profile investors who bought the claim that her Silicon Valley startup had developed a breakthrough in blood testing that would revolutionize medicine. Good press soon inflated the company’s value to $9 billion before the puffery began to unravel and Theranos worked to silence detractors. Monday, March 18, at 9 p.m., HBO
March 15, 2019 THE WEEK
