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Elizabeth Holmes whistleblower and investigator react to 'You Can See Everything' · Best of: Features

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  Elizabeth Holmes whistleblower and investigator React to You Can See Everything, This
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  article is being read by an automated voice generated by Everlet. If
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  there's one takeaway from Nathan Fielder and Lance Oppenheim's new documentary, you
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  can see everything. It's that Elizabeth Holmes is a hard person to
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  understand. By the end of the film, even Fielder is perplexed as
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  to whether she's the greatest liar of a generation or truly delusional.
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  As the film has become a hit, it's brought out a slew
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  of testimonies from those who've interacted with Holmes personally, or have an
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  insider view of her exploits. Perhaps the most knowledgeable person on the
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  Therano scandal is the reporter who broke the story, John Carrew, whose
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  other investigative work was notably portrayed in the Social Reckoning. In a
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  lengthy piece in the New York Times, Cararou recounts how he wasn't
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  allowed to interview Holmes directly, however, given his extensive reporting and subsequent
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  book Bad Blood, he's probably the foremost Holmes expert. He states that
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  Holmes is lying in some of the film's most incredulous moments, including
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  Holmes supposed lack of understanding of the Abbott and Costello, who's on
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  First Routine. Carey Rue describes her reaction as an attempt at casting
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  herself as the neurodivergent entrepreneur who operated on a different wavelength. Another
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  moment that rang untrue for Kararoo was when Holmes breaks down after
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  a photo shoot, claiming she doesn't like the spotlight. Kararoo notes her
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  many public appearances, such as a twenty fourteen TED talk, as evidence
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  to the contrary. He also posted on X that he loved the
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  film, hashtag BestPicture. Another New York Times response piece addresses a quote
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  featured in a Times article in twenty twenty three. According to reporter
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  Amy Chosick, Holmes told her, regarding the Hulu show, the Dropout, they're
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  not playing me. They're playing a character I created. In the film
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  it's used as an example of Holmes inauthenticity. Holmes disputed the quote
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  at the time, stating that she didn't create a character, but rather
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  the created it. Her fiance Billy Evans, a pivotal figure in You
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  Can See Everything, claims that he recorded the exchange and the quote
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  was inaccurate. Chozick rebuts this, recounting that Evans supplied the Times with
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  only an eighty second clip to try to disprove the quote. Chozick
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  also claims that the exchange happened when recorders were turned off, and
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  that she wrote it down in a notebook. Theranos whistleblower Tyler Schultz
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  offers another interesting perspective in an article for the medical journal Stat.
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  When he worked at Theranos, his grandfather, former Secretary of State George
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  Schultz, was on the board of the company, and his relationship with
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  Holmes was friendly enough that she came to family birthday parties. He
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  notes that the Theranos device shown in the film on Holmes's kitchen
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  table was not the same device used by the company, but rather
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  an uncompleted prototype. He goes deep into the distinctions between the two
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  devices, alleging that the version shown is meant to be more impressive
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  to audiences and create more ambiguity. Schultz also points out that the
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  somewhat modest looking beach house was a ruse as well, and that
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  prior to Fielder's arrival, she was living in a much larger estate.
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  It mirrors a deception she made for a New Yorker profile in
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  twenty fourteen, in which she showed off an austere two bedroom condo,
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  while she was actually living in a mansion in Atherton. In another
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  stat article, Matthew Herper, formerly a health reporter at Forbes, recounts when
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  he interviewed Holmes twice on stage. He rattled off a list of
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  deceptive claims Holmes made regarding the capabilities of her technology, and said
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  she made false claims during his interviews. With regard to the film,
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  he called her ability to influence others, including himself, her superpower. He
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  concluded the essay by arguing that giving her attention at this point
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  feeds her manipulative behavior. We see that eerie stare and we are
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  caught up. We even see it happen to Fielder. I wish we
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  could all just not look, he wrote. Some of the key moments
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  in the film revolve around the relaunch of Theranos, with Evans deeply
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  involved in the project. NPR correspondent Bobby Allen shared an article he
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  wrote about the relaunch of Theranos, stating that Evans pushed back on
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  Holmes involvement in the company, whereas in the film she's shown as
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  a pivotal figure. And San Francisco data scientist Armand Domilevsky weighed in
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  on X, noting that the tech jargon used in the film by
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  Holmes and Evans is total gibberish, and that they were play acting
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  as start up founders.