From New York Times, I'm Michael Bavaro. This is Adali.

Today,

the saga of Theranos and its founder, Elizabeth Holmes,

as her highly anticipated trial gets underway.

My colleague, Aaron Griffith, explores what we're learning about tech startup,

culture, and the nature of Silicon Valley.

It's Thursday, September 16th.

Aaron, you are one of the few reporters who's been allowed to cover this trial

from inside the courtroom. So set the scene for us. What has that been like?

So outside the courtroom is kind of chaos.

You know, there was a line that started in the dark at 430 in the morning on the first day of the opening arguments last week.

Wow.

I showed up at five and I was already pretty far back in the line.

There are reporters. There are people waiting in line for reporters.

There are members of the community who are curious.

There were a few Holmes fans that were dressed in what looked like a costume of kind of the way she dressed with her blonde hair and black suits.

So they were there supporting her.

And they're just cameras everywhere.

And so when lawyers walk in, when she walks in,

there are camera people just sprinting surrounding her.

There was a guy wearing a helmet and a GoPro taking pictures.

I mean, so it's just kind of chaos going in and out.

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