directed by: Alex Gibney, year: 2019
actors: Elizabeth Holmes, Sunny Balwani

The Inventor: Out for Blood in Silicon Valley is an investigative documentary by Alex Gibney about the Theranos scandal. It traces Elizabeth Holmes's ascent from a Stanford dropout to Silicon Valley icon and chronicles Theranos's dramatic collapse after its blood-testing technology proves unreliable. Through interviews with whistleblowers, investors, regulators and former Theranos staff, the film exposes hype, secrecy, and deception, and the human costs of a billion-dollar fraud. The film questions how ambition, innovation, and denial converge in modern tech culture.

Media Frenzy, Documentary, Investigative, Biography, Technology, Theranos, Fraud