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The Dropout
2022 · TV series · 1 season
Created by Elizabeth Meriwether
The story of Elizabeth Holmes, the enigmatic Stanford dropout who founded medical testing start-up Theranos. Lauded as a Steve Jobs for the next tech generation and once worth billions of dollars, the myth crumbled when it was revealed that none of the tech actually worked, putting thousands of people's health in grave danger.
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Nowhere near the same quality and actually (mini)series but:
- Halt and Catch Fire (actually pretty good quality and full series)
- The Playlist (creation of Spotify)
- The Dropout (creation of Theranos... do not get advice from this one though)
- WeCrashed (about WeWork, haven't seen this one though)
- Silicon Valley (silly comedy but might work)
Also some TV/movies/docs you might find in YouTube:
- Pirates of Silicon Valley (movie about bill gates and steve jobs)
- Project Code Rush (about the beginning of Mozilla)
- Aardvark'd: 12 weeks with geeks (doc about a startup by Joel Spolsky of StackOverflow fame).
Oh and also those two Steve Job movies that came out side by side.
> When's the movie coming out? Who's going to play her?
Was in development at Apple/Lionsgate, directed by Adam McKay, and starring Jennifer Lawrence.
Edit: May be out of production now, as they believe the TV show (The Dropout, starring Amanda Seyfried) did it too well last year. https://twitter.com/kylebuchanan/status/1587835427838271488?cxt=HHwWgICl4ZX6j4ksAAAA
https://www.imdb.com/title/tt15559582/
Check out the latest film about Bezos' life.
Perhaps I am more easily able to look past personal wealth, and not as easily impressed with the internet's accidental billionaires, but I found the portrayal of Bezos in this film on the creepy side. He is the colleague who inexplicably quits his good job for no apparent reason. If he did not become so wealthy no one would view this person as particularly attractive to work with. Not surprising his wife left him. Becoming wealthy does not change who someone is as a person.
The film reminded me of the Netflix series on Elizabeth Holmes, "Dropout". The actress did an incredible job. Holmes is a very weird person. IMHO, it really does not matter how much wealth is involved, these people have no character. They are the furthest I can imagine from "leaders". Yet that is exactly what they are pretending to be.
On the internet, everyone is entitled to an opinion. These entertainment industry portrayals of Bezos, Holmes, etc. might not mirror the prevailing shared opinions on the internet. But it's worth considering that opinions shared on the internet about people who become wealthy from the internet could be biased.
Read the book Bad Blood and watch the series The Dropout for a fairly complete picture of the whole saga.
The Dropout https://www.imdb.com/title/tt10166622/
After that, 10 mins of Alex Gibney's doco The Inventor will likely be enough, just to see and hear the creepy reality.
> Was this even in the realm of possibility?
Apparently not even in the realm of possibility. It seems she had a vision of herself as a genius who changed the world, and lived in that bubble. Still does, it seems.
Even after reading Bad Blood, the series really shows you how it looked, how such a thing was even possible, and went on for so many years. It's such a crazy story. I do feel sorry for Sonny though.
At this point, I’d like to see a tv show of all this in the vein of recent silicon valley shows like ‘The Dropout’ or ‘Super Pumped’
"Get The Fucking Money"
An [invented] Larry Ellison quote from "The Dropout", the Elizabeth Holmes Theranos TV mini-series funded by Hulu.
https://youtube.com/watch?v=sgd40T05KaQ&t=65
Just watched the Dropout. It's funny that Murdoch was a major investor in Theranos, the WSJ exposed their fraud, and a subsidiary of 20th century Fox produces a TV show about the whole thing.
That project has been in the works for many years now, and is no closer to seeing the light of day. Hulu's miniseries 'The Dropout', with Amanda Seyfried, debuts in March though.
If you’re a fan of podcast documentaries, I would check out “The Dropout”. It’s really good, and how I first found out about Theranos