There are No Girls on the Internet as a production of IHeart Radio and Unbossed Creative.

I'm Bridget Todd, and this is There Are No Girls on the Internet.

Hi, and welcome to There Are No Girls on the Internet.

So we are starting a brand new thing on the podcast where we are going to be rounding up news and analysis about tech, the internet, and media that you might have missed.

I will do this every other week, but if you want to get it weekly, be sure to subscribe to our Patreon at patreon.com slash tangoity.

So let's get into it.

I'm here with my producer, Mike.

Mike, thank you so much for being here.

Thanks for having me. I'm super excited to be here for this inaugural news roundout.

So we're starting out hot with a story that I followed obsessively. I have watched multiple documentaries about it. I have read books about it. I have watched Hulu series about it, and that is my girl, Elizabeth Holmes.

Elizabeth Holmes has officially girl bossed a little bit too close to the sun and must report to

prison on May 30th. Y'all probably remember Elizabeth Holmes. She used to run a blood testing

startup called Theranos that said that using a drop of blood, they could screen for diseases and

health information, but actually it never did any of that. Elizabeth Holmes, like she wore a lot of black turtlenecks

and sort of always had this, like, messy hair, and she kind of talked like this, all that's part of

this, like, tech CEO persona that was also kind of a fraud. Holmes was convicted on charges of

defrauding her investors

in her failed blood testing startup. She's appealing those charges, but the court rejected her request

to remain out on bail while she appeals her case. She's sort of been able to drag her feet on

reporting to prison, but it seems like maybe her time has finally run out. Now, back in November,

she was sentenced to

11 years and three months in prison for conspiracy and fraud against investors. Now, she was

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