Silicon Valley royalty, buckets of cash💸, billionaire's yachts, and the beginnings of a con. Ep 2 of TheDropoutHulu brings it all. 🩸thedropout EvanSernoffsky has what's real vs what's pure drama:
Evan Sernoffsky is an investigative reporter for KTVU who covered the four-month-long Elizabeth Holmes fraud trial from gavel-to-gavel. Email Evan at The first three episodes all drop March 3 for Hulu’s new, bingeable ripped-from-the-headlines series "The Dropout."We learned in Episode 1
The Dropout --"Satori" - Episode 102 -- In need of money, Elizabeth brings her fledgling technology to the venture capitalists of Silicon Valley. In Switzerland, she is forced to make a difficult decision. Elizabeth Holmes , shown.In real life, Theranos was always on the verge of going bankrupt. And Episode 2 focuses on a frazzled Holmes trying to keep her company afloat inside its East Palo Alto offices.
Holmes finally hits pay dirt in the show when she gets a surprise visit from legendary Silicon Valley investor Don Lucas. She can't get her analyzer to work for a demonstration but convinces Lucas's "gut" to take a chance on her. Holmes ends up wrangling millions in venture funding from her Series B investments in 2006, launching Theranos to the next level before its analyzers are anywhere near ready. .
The early iteration of what will become known as the Edison analyzer has worked exactly one time in Theranos' lab. . In the dramatized version, scientists Rakesh Madhava and Edmund Ku find a way to prevent the blood from clotting on the analyzer cartridge and miraculously pull off a sepsis test.
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