What We Learned When Elizabeth Holmes Took The Stand In Her Fraud Trial
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🗓️ 10 December 2021
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Holmes, a former Silicon Valley luminary, was CEO of the blood-testing startup Theranos. She told jurors she was not responsible, as prosecutors allege, for fleecing investors of millions of dollars and delivering flawed results to patients.
And as NPR tech reporter Bobby Allyn explains, Holmes detailed a story of abuse that could sway the outcome of the trial.
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| 0:00.0 | It all started with a fear of needles. |
| 0:03.5 | So Elizabeth Holmes and her mother hate syringes. |
| 0:07.8 | That's NPR tech reporter Bobby Allen. |
| 0:09.9 | This has been well documented in books and documentaries. |
| 0:12.9 | They hate needles, they hate getting jabbed. |
| 0:15.4 | People don't like big needles being stuck into their arm. |
| 0:18.4 | Yeah, part of it. |
| 0:19.9 | You're one of those people, right? |
| 0:21.6 | I'm deeply so. |
| 0:22.6 | Yes. |
| 0:24.0 | And this is Elizabeth Holmes in an interview |
| 0:26.8 | with Fortune Magazine back in 2014. |
| 0:29.1 | We've reinvented the traditional laboratory infrastructure. |
| 0:34.3 | When she was 19 years old, she came up with this idea |
| 0:36.7 | that would like revolutionize the way that you and I |
| 0:39.0 | get blood tests. |
| 0:39.9 | That instead of getting a jab in the arm, |
| 0:42.4 | we'd get this tiny pinprick of blood |
| 0:44.3 | from the tip of our finger. |
| 0:46.1 | And it would be put into this machine |
| 0:48.0 | that she called an Edison. |
| 0:49.8 | And it would be able to scan for hundreds and hundreds |
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