User Comments for The Inventor: Out for Blood in Silicon Valley

staircar says...

5 years ago

Good documentary about an unusual and fascinating person, and the strange rise and fall of Theranos. But it felt incomplete. I want to know more about how everything played out at the end. And to dig more into the technology and see if any of it was real.

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Reply by olaf.fetter

5 years ago

@staircar I agree, the story is way too complex to fit in one documentary like this. I strongly advise you to read the book "Bad Blood: Secrets and Lies in a Silicon Valley Startup" by John Carreyrou (who is also part featured in this documentary). It covers the whole story in great detail and is truly an amazing read! Although this doc makes a great addition to the book by giving the characters a face.

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Reply by Atlantis14

3 years ago

@staircar There is nothing complex. It was a scam. She thought with her big eyes she could hypnotize people.

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sathreed says...

5 years ago

The documentary is quite long and could have been presented in a much shorter time. The coverage is great; there are so many testimonies, interviews, quotes and generally the documentary was well done. I was mostly disappointed by the presentation of the story; it felts stretched out and repetitive without providing enough details about the story itself.

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bigwillthechamp says...

5 years ago

This was not well done. I watched this because I listed to the podcast The Graduate. If you really want an in depth dive into this story, skip the movie and do the podcast.

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Reply by zuretear

3 years ago

@bigwillthechamp Don't you mean ABC's The Dropout? Can't find anything about Theranos when searching The Graduate.

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3 years ago

@zuretear You're right. I corrected. I conflated the two.

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miguelreina says...

2 years ago

[HBO Max] Only in the context of a system that facilitates fraud can characters like Elizabeth Holmes and Ramesh Balwani be understood, and this film knows how to build that context. Perhaps too intent on denigrating Errol Morris for filming a commercial for Theranos, when most whistleblowers only came forward after being fired, Alex Gibney portrays a character who took the Silicon Valley philosophy literally: "Fake it till you make it".

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SpeedDemon says...

5 years ago

Elizabeth Holmes is morally bankrupt and is completely self-centred. How she managed to convince people to give her a boatload of money just boggles the mind. She should be in jail for the rest of her life, but walks free - unbelievable.

Good movie - take the time to watch it. 8/10

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horizonous says...

5 years ago

I have read **John Carreyrou**'s book "Bad Blood: Secrets and Lies in a Silicon Valley Startup" beforehand, so I was mostly interested in this documentary because I wanted to see all those people he wrote about - especially **Erika Cheung**, **Tyler Schultz**, **Alan Beam** and the late **Ian Gibbons**. If you want to go deeper down this rabbit hole, I highly recommend the book!

The documentary itself certainly gets the point across, although it got a bit repetitive and quite tedious towards the end.. I'm also not a fan of the incorporated animations.

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TKPNPodcast says...

2 years ago

While I prefer the series recently released on Hulu which went into more detail, this is an excellent doc summarizing a lot of people's willingness to be hoodwinked in the modern era. Sad story told efficiently and well.

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Heimdall77 says...

3 years ago

A very interesting story prolonged way beyond what the actual events required and disturbingly focused on Holmes' looks.
Like a quarter of the playtime of the entire thing is closeups of her face.

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edsonrafaell says...

2 years ago

It was like a cult. That woman has some problems.

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birdcages says...

2 years ago

good if you want to be reminded just how fucking useless the regulatory systems can be when someone has connections. i just don't understand how everyone was mesmerized by this woman. and as someone with chronic illness, i've been getting lab work done every few months for over 10 years and i can confidently say that as inconvenient as it can be, the availability of actually legitimate services like everlywell and other home testing is useful but not life changing. the notion that theranos was creating some life changing, disruptive healthcare solution is infuriating.

also all you needlephobes are tripping, my arm's always fine after venipuncture meanwhile finger sticks give me little bruises from hell on my fingertips for days.

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themortis says...

one year ago

Real proof that charm, influence, and money can get you very far in life. Oh, and also: “fake it until you make it” - or until you end up in court or something.

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