The Inventor: Out for Blood in Silicon Valley — Official Trailer

added: Mon, Feb 18th '19

Elizabeth Holmes was touted as "the next Steve Jobs." She was listed by major magazines as one of the most influential women in the world, and was ranked as one of the world's most powerful tech entrepreneurs. At one point, her tech company was valued at $9 billion. She promised to revolutionize the world of personal healthcare. But it all came crashing down when it turned out that her company was a total fraud -- fabricated by a low-pitched charlatan named ... Elizabeth Holmes.

From Oscar-and-Emmy-winning documentarian Alex Gibney comes a new investigative documentary for HBO, chronicling the rise and fall of Theranos, the one-time multibillion-dollar blood-testing company founded by Holmes, a once fast-rising female entrepreneur who turned out to be a deceiving tech billionaire who made false claims concerning her company's ability to analyse people's blood samples.

After premiering to mostly solid reviews at Sundance last month, "The Inventor: Out for Blood in Silicon Valley" is now scheduled to air on HBO Monday, March 18th. Watch the newly-released trailer, above.

synopsis:
Academy Award winner Alex Gibney (Enron: The Smartest Guys in the Room, HBO's Emmy-winning Going Clear: Scientology and the Prison of Belief) directs a documentary investigating the rise and fall of Theranos, the one-time multibillion-dollar healthcare company founded by Elizabeth Holmes.

In 2004, Elizabeth Holmes dropped out of Stanford to start a company that was going to revolutionize healthcare. In 2014, Theranos was valued at $9 billion, making Holmes, who was touted as "the next Steve Jobs," the youngest self-made female billionaire in the world. Just two years later, Theranos was cited as a "massive fraud" by the SEC, and its value was less than zero.

Drawing on extraordinary access to never-before-seen footage and testimony from key insiders, director Alex Gibney will tell a Silicon Valley tale that was too good to be true. With all the drama of a real-life heist film, the untitled documentary will examine how this could have happened and who is responsible, while exploring the psychology of deception.

directed by Alex Gibney

release date March 18, 2019 (on HBO)