The Dropout

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🗓️ 14 March 2022

⏱️ 17 minutes

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Summary

Hulu's The Dropout moves the needle on the Theranos story. The series stars Amanda Seyfried as Theranos founder Elizabeth Holmes, and shows how the tech wunderkind and her company went from darlings to defendants. The cast also includes Naveen Andrews, William H. Macy, Sam Waterston, Stephen Fry, Alan Ruck and Laurie Metcalf.

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0:00.0	This episode contains discussion of sexual assault.
0:03.4	The promise of the blood work start-up Theranos was hard to resist if you don't like needles.
0:13.5	A fingerstick instead of a big blood draw, the very idea made founder Elizabeth Holmes
0:18.6	a star.
0:19.6	But she didn't actually ever have the operational technology she claimed to have.
0:25.2	And if you watch the news, you know she was recently found guilty of fraud and is awaiting
0:30.2	sentencing.
0:31.2	Amanda Cyford plays Holmes in a new Hulu series called The Dropout, which promises to show
0:36.1	you how the tech wonderkinned and Theranos went from darlings to defendants.
0:41.2	I'm Linda Holmes and we're talking about The Dropout on today's Top Culture Happy
0:44.4	Hour from NPR.
0:49.8	Here with me today is NPR political reporter Danielle Card Sleven.
0:53.0	Welcome back Danielle.
0:54.4	Hey Linda.
0:55.4	And also joining us is Anjali Sastryk, Kerbicek.
0:58.3	Anjali is a producer for NPR's.
1:00.0	It's been a minute.
1:01.0	Welcome back to the show Anjali.
1:02.5	Hey Linda.
1:03.6	So I have acknowledged in the past that I am a Theranos obsessive.
1:07.1	I have read the book Bad Blood by John Kerry Rue who broke the story of Theranos' problems
1:11.9	in the Wall Street Journal in 2015.
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