The United States v. Elizabeth Holmes

<p>When Elizabeth Holmes founded Theranos, the blood testing start-up, she was held up as one of the next great tech innovators.</p><p>But her company collapsed, and she was accused of lying about how well Theranos’s technology worked. Now she is on trial on fraud charges.</p><p>The case against Ms. Holmes is being held up as a referendum on the “fake it till you make it” culture of Silicon Valley, but it’s also about so much more.</p><p>Guest: <a href="https://www.nytimes.com/by/erin-griffith?smid=pc-thedaily">Erin Griffith</a>, a reporter covering technology start-ups and venture capital for The New York Times. </p><p><a href="https://www.nytimes.com/newsletters/signup/NTTD?smid=pc-thedaily">Sign up here</a> to get The Daily in your inbox each morning. And for an exclusive look at how the biggest stories on our show come together, <a href="https://www.nytimes.com/newsletters/the-daily?module=inline">subscribe to our newsletter</a>. </p><p>Background reading: </p><ul><li>The trial of Ms. Holmes will cap<a href="https://www.nytimes.com/2021/08/30/technology/trial-elizabeth-holmes-theranos.html"> a saga of Silicon Valley ambition and deception</a>.</li></ul><p>For more information on today’s episode, visit <a href="http://nytimes.com/thedaily?smid=pc-thedaily">nytimes.com/thedaily</a>. Transcripts of each episode will be made available by the next workday.</p>