The Inventor : Out for Blood in Silicon Valley (2019)

Made for HBO, airing March 18th in the US.

The story : In 2003 Stanford college student and company owner Elizabeth Holmes filed her first patent application for a  wearable drug delivery patch.

By 2004 , she had dropped out of school , where she studied chemical engineering , although at the time she had experience with the testing of SARS.

Elizabeth believed she was on to something , even if she wasnt getting the get-go she believed in.

The bright young aspiring inventor had a life-long fear of needles , so when she came up with the idea of all data being collected for blood testing by one finger prick , she was told it could not be done.

But that did not stop Elizabeth.

She carried on , finding backers who believed her idea could be produced.

Elizabeth then renamed her already not going anywhere company to Theranos.

She found funding by convincing believers that her idea was possible and not just a dream.

She employeed many who also believed in the work they were doing.

But before there were any actual positive results , there were more than enough failures for insiders to see. Theranos work continued to plummet and even Elizabeth herself would not admit to its all around complete failure.
Stars Dan Ariely , (voice) Alex Gibney , Phyllis Gardner , Elizabeth Holmes , Roger Parloff , Ken Auletta , Erika Cheung , Cheryl Gafner , Dave Phililippides , Douglas Matje , Ryan Wistort , Tony Nugent , Channing Robertson , Don Lucas , Tyler Shultz , Rochelle Gibbons , Ramesh Balwani

Directed by (& story written) Alex Gibney

Rated TV14

DOCUMENTARY/HISTORY