Holmes stretch: Theranos’s founder convicted

The Intelligence from The Economist

• Episode: Holmes stretch: Theranos’s founder convicted
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• Duration: 00:21:34
• Published: 2022-01-04 12:10

Elizabeth Holmes has been found guilty of fraud. We ask what lessons her downfall holds for Theranos’s high-profile backers—and for a startup culture of hype before science. As Apple crosses a $3trn valuation we examine the motives for its stop-start forays into the competitive streaming-video business. And what lies behind the curious resurgence of syphilis.

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