Previously on the dropout, there was drama from the jury pool when two women asked to be

excused.

One was ultimately dismissed.

Her Buddhist values and concerns around punishment, preventing her from serving.

We're only a few weeks into the trial, and we've now lost our second juror.

Everyone's going to be very mindful of the fact that jurors are starting to leave.

And a veteran Silicon Valley investor put the Theranos saga into larger context.

The notion that you could raise hundreds of millions of dollars for a medical testing

company run by a person under the age of 30 was something that would have been vanishingly

unlikely prior to 2000, but didn't seem out of place in the environment of the first

decade of this century.

This week we hear from former Theranos co-o Sunny Belwani's dermatologist, who also happened

to join Theranos as its lab director.

And two retail giants whose deals with Theranos help propel the company from a startup dream

to a big league business.

From ABC Audio, this is the dropout, Elizabeth Holmes on trial.

Episode 9.

The Clients.

In 2010, Elizabeth Holmes was plotting along, gathering investments and working to make

Theranos' supposedly revolutionary technology a reality.

But when two major US companies signed on to put Theranos devices in their stores, things

got very real, very quickly.

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