The story of Elizabeth Holmes is more amazing than Matrix , but rigorously true. Oscar-winning Alex Gibney tells her in a documentary for HBO, premiered at the latest Sundance: The Inventor: Out of Blood for Silicon Valley festival. And, although incredible, it will also be an Adam McKay movie, played by Jennifer Lawrence. This is the adaptation of the 2019 New York Times non-fiction bestseller Bad Blood (Ed. Knof), the two-time Pulitzer Wall Street Journal journalist John Carreyrou.

Elizabeth Holmes was a brilliant Stanford student, extraordinarily persuasive and owner of an irresistible magnetism that never blinked, born the same year as Mark Zuckerberg. At 19 he leaves the studios to found his own company, Theranos, which becomes Silicon Valley's most promising startup and she, in the new Steve Jobs in millennial version. You always saw black. Elizabeth accumulates hundreds of patents and promises a revolution bigger than Bill Gates, a global health revolution. Whether she believes it or not, it matters little, because the philosophy of the Silicon Valley is "pretend to achieve it," explains Carreyrou.

A portable laboratory in each house, no bigger than a printer, baptized as Edison, that with a single drop of blood performs in 200 minutes more diagnostic tests. From the early detection of cancer to the most remote ailment still latent.

She is seen with Clinton, is on the Forbes list and is the cover of Fortune. During the Obama years, Theranos has among its shareholders IBM pioneers, great capitalists such as Donal L. Lucas or Carlos Slim, personalities such as Henry Kissinger or Rupert Murdoch himself. In 2014, the company was quoted at more than 9,000 million dollars and nobody knew what they did, nor themselves, half a thousand employees compartmentalized in a bunker of secrecy, paranoia and confidentiality. When the Wall Street Journal reporter uncovered the cake, Theranos had performed thousands of analyzes, but the Edison machine was a fraud. The technology for those low cost blood tests did not exist. Today there is nothing left of that empire and Holmes faces 11 criminal charges and a 20-year prison sentence.

That is what John Carreyrou has with hair and signs in Bad Blood, which Captain Swing publishes on September 16 as Bad Blood. Secrets and lies of a Silicon Valley startup with translation of Begoña Valle Simón.

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