Rebecca Jarvis, Taylor Dunn and Victoria Thompson
The Dropout
ABC Radio podcast
ABC Radio, 2019
What's inside?
Theranos founder Elizabeth Holmes has been compared to both Steve Jobs and Bernie Madoff.
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When a relative asked young Elizabeth Holmes what she wanted to do when she grew up, she said she wanted to be a billionaire. Holmes remained ambitious, and she continued to be more interested in fame and fortune than the work it takes to get there. In ABC Radio’s The Dropout podcast, you’ll learn the story of Elizabeth Holmes and Theranos, the little company that couldn’t – but pretended it did anyway.
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About the Podcast
In this six-episode podcast series The Dropout, ABC News chief business, economics and technology correspondent Rebecca Jarvis, along with producers Taylor Dunn and Victoria Thompson, chronicle the rise and fall of Elizabeth Holmes and her company, Theranos. The podcast series includes exclusive interviews with former employees, investors and patients as well as snippets from Holmes’s deposition testimony.
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