The Inventor: Out for Blood in Silicon Valley
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.
Director Alex Gibney tells a Silicon Valley tale that was too good to be true. With all the drama of a real-life heist film, The Inventor examines how this could have happened and who is responsible, while exploring the psychology of deception.
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Credits
Director: | Alex Gibney |
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Executive Producer: | Nancy Abraham, Sara Bernstein, Graydon Carter |
Producer: | Erin Edeiken, Alex Gibney, Jessie Deeter |
Screenwriter: | Alex Gibney |
Cinematographer: | Lincoln Else, Antonio Rossi |
Editor: | Andy Grieve ACE |
Music: | Will Bates |
Principal Cast: | Tyler Shultz, Erika Cheung, John Carreyrou, Roger Parloff, Ken Auletta, Dan Ariely |
Additional Credits: | Co-Editor: Alexis Johnson, Associate Producer: Ophelia Harutyunyan |
Contact
Distributor: | HBO |
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Public Film Contact: | Erin Edeiken |
Publicity Contact: | Lauren Schwartz |