ShortHand: Why Did Anyone Believe in Elizabeth Holmes?

RedHanded

True Crime

4.5 • 19.6K Ratings

🗓️ 18 October 2022

⏱️ 28 minutes

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Summary

Elizabeth Holmes and her startup, Theranos, are now infamous. With millions of lives put at risk, and hundreds of millions of dollars flushed down the toilet, they serve as the ultimate cautionary tale of “fake it till you make it” gone wrong.

But with her sentence approaching, we ask why anyone trusted Elizabeth Holmes in the first place – first with their money, and then with American lives…

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0:00.0	Hello listeners, we were really hoping that we would be on the ball in the head of the
0:05.1	game and release this on the same day or even the same week as the sentencing of Elizabeth
0:10.2	Holmes, but it hasn't happened yet, so we're releasing it anyway so you can get a headstart
0:15.4	on everyone else.
0:17.1	Hello and welcome back to another fight-size episode of Red handed Poirot Showhand.
0:37.5	I'm going to talk to you about the dropout which we all think Sirutie Barler especially
0:44.5	should have been called.
0:46.0	It should have been called Blood Money.
0:47.8	It should have been called Blood Money.
0:49.4	Really Mr Trick there ABC.
0:50.4	I know.
0:51.4	I'm going to use it once, Pat and Pending, Pat and Pending, Pat and Pending.
0:57.4	We are of course talking about Elizabeth Holmes and we are releasing this episode of Short
1:01.7	Hand for you because her sentencing is coming up.
1:06.5	And we really thought that we would know what it is by the time we recorded this, it was
1:11.0	supposed to be yesterday.
1:12.6	We are sat here on the 27th of September.
1:15.6	It's been moved.
1:16.6	Maybe by the time this comes out you will know and you'll be scoffing at us from the
1:21.9	future.
1:22.9	Maybe there's a topper at the start of this episode.
1:25.0	Who knows where we're talking about what sentence she got.
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