ELIZABETH HOLMES: Today, we are taking the first step
toward making health care accessible to everyone in this country.
- You need to start bringing in venture capital firms.
- Hello, Don. Elizabeth Holmes.
And when Larry Ellison came to you,
with his vision for how Oracle could organize data
you said, "How much do you need?"
- I want you to meet Larry Ellison.
LARRY ELLISON: If you want this, you gotta fight.
That's what it takes to run a billion-dollar company.
Is that what you really want?
- Yes. - What are you willing to do to get it?
- We faked the demo.
- Don't tell anyone else.
ELIZABETH: Our series B round closed
at $165 million.
I'm going to change the world!
♪ Feist's 1234 playing ♪
[crowd chattering]
♪ One, two, three, four ♪
♪ Tell me that you love me more ♪
♪ Sleepless long nights ♪
♪ That is what my youth was for ♪
♪ Old teenage hopes are alive at your door ♪
♪ Left you with nothing but they want some more ♪
♪ Oh, uh-oh, you're changing your heart ♪
♪ Oh, uh-oh, you know who you are ♪
♪ Sweetheart, bitter heart now I can tell you apart ♪
[beep]
♪ Cozy and cold, put the horse before the cart ♪
♪ Those teenage hopes who have tears in their eyes ♪
- What were you doing in India, Mr. Bal--
- It's Balwani.
And I've actually got somewhere to be.
- Oh, where? - I'm buying an iPhone.
- A what?
- It's new.
- And why do you need another phone, Mr. Balwani?
What is the phone for?
Is this funny to you?
- No, sir.
- What's your occupation?
- I started a company and then I sold it so--
- I'm going to ask you again, what is your occupation?
- I don't have one.
♪ Three, four, five, six, nine, or ten ♪
♪ Back the love that you had then ♪
[all cheering]
- I fuckin' love Steve Jobs!
[cheering]
- Woo-hoo!
I got the first one!
Yeah!
- Woo!
Woo!
- Yeah!
[cheering]
♪ You know who you are ♪
♪
[office chatter]
- You... designed the iPhone.
- Yeah. - I'm... I'm so starstruck right now.
- Oh, I can't take all the credit.
And Steve wouldn't let me. [Elizabeth chuckles]
But I did make it prettier to look at.
See, that's the thing Steve really understood.
You can have all the right tech on the inside,
but without the right look--
- None of it matters. - Exactly.
- That's my weakness.
I, I never think about what things look like.
- I can see that.
- Oh no, you don't--
you don't like what I'm wearing?
- You should just dress more like a CEO.
- I-- when I was with Mark Zuckerberg
at the photoshoot for Inc,
he was wearing soccer sandals, flip-flops.
- Yes, but you are a woman.
If you wear soccer sandals to work,
everyone would think that you're having a mental breakdown.
- Yeah, I just don't want to waste my time picking out what I'm going to wear.
- It's not a waste of time. - For you. You're a designer.
- Listen, how you present yourself to the world
is your identity.
It's, it's your armor.
You're a good person. I'm rooting for you.
Honestly,
it's just really exciting to me that you're a young female CEO
instead of a cocky little boy in a sweatshirt.
[laughs]
- Yeah-- What do I have to do to convince you to,
to work here?
Avie Tevanian joined our board, and he's a big fan of you.
- I love Avie.
- He said that you'd lose 15,000 shares
of Apple stock if you left.
- It's my retirement.
I got a wife. I got kids. - Yeah.
But the outsiders have to stick together.
That's how we change the world.
♪
- Seriously, though, your company has momentum now,
and when the board starts smelling money,
they're going to get tough on you.
Watch your back.
- Why the fuck do you want a car that doesn't make any noise?
- It's a Prius, Sunny. It's what everybody is driving.
- Why do you even need a new car?
I like driving you.
[door opens]
- [scoffs] Not even real leather.
- I like it.
- You know, I'm looking into this computer science grad program at Stanford.
I'm thinking about going back to school again.
What do you think?
- Do you think my board respects me?
- Sure. Just keep making them money.
- Could they fire me? From my own company?
- Of course, they can.
You took money from VCs. They own you.
[tapping]
- Hey, you have any questions?
[clicking lock]
The demo cars don't lock. [cell phone ringing]
My name's Bruce. If you have any questions, let me know.
- Uh, I have to get this. It's Larry Ellison.
[ringing continues]
Hey, Sunny.
We should... go out.
Like, on a date or something.
- Okay.
- Is she taking a call in there?
- It's private.
NOEL: I know you're not much of a reader,
but Elizabeth was just profiled in Inc Magazine's
"30 Under 30" with Mark Zuckerberg.
- Oh. - Who made Facebook.
LORRAINE: Is that the thing where single people put their pictures up?
My stepson is on that.
Hey, not a big deal, but has Elizabeth received
any emails from Richard lately?
- No. Why would Richard be emailing Elizabeth?
- Well, this is kind of silly, actually,
but I think he was hurt
that she didn't contact him for advice on her company,
you know, since his company also invents biomedical devices,
and it made him a little angry.
- What?
He was mad she didn't call him for advice?
- Well... yeah.
He's been researching what she's doing.
I think he might be trying to have a little fun with her company.
- A little fun with her company? What?
- He applied for a patent.
I don't really understand it, but I think he wants her to buy him off,
you know, just for fun.
- So your husband has been secretly researching
my daughter's company so he can make money off her?
My 23-year-old daughter!
- Well, you don't have to make it sound so bad.
Mrs. Holmes.
Wait.
Mrs. Holmes!
Mrs. Holmes.
- Richard.
Richard.
RICHARD: Yes?
NOEL: Richard.
- Hello, Noel. You look like you need a glass of water.
- What did you do to Elizabeth?
LORRAINE: Richard.
Richard?
Oh god.
- You're trying to mess with Elizabeth's company?
- Richard. Everybody, be nice.
RICHARD: There's nothing for you to worry about, Noel.
- He's just having fun.
- I'm a businessman.
I think she's got a great idea. I want to be a part of it.
So I looked into what she's going to need,
and I invented a mechanism
that will alert doctors
when their patients have an abnormal blood test.
If she ever wants to put a blood testing device in someone's home,
she'll have to license my invention.
- Buy you off.
- Your words, not mine. - You're sick.
- If she had called and asked my advice,
I would have told her, things like this can happen.
- You know what, can I get anyone coffee?
- You're a tiny man!
- Oh, stop being such a nice little WASP
and tell me to fuck off, Noel.
- Fuck off!
- No, you fuck off.
- Fuck you. Fuck you. Fuck you!
[door slams]
[laughter over phone] - You said that to him?
- Your mom used the F-word.
- I said it a couple of times. [Elizabeth gasps]
- Thank you. I, I haven't heard about any patent applications.
He's, he's bluffing.
- I'm never speaking to Lorraine again.
They both can fuck off.
- Oh my gosh.
[gasps] [Lorraine and Chris laughing]
ELIZABETH: Oh shit. - What?
- I spilled my coffee. Oh shit.
- Doesn't the Prius have a cup holder?
♪ Passion Pit's Sleepyhead playing ♪
♪
♪ Sleepyhead ♪
♪
[keys jingling]
ANA ARRIOLA: Hey, Bridget Jones.
I thought we were meeting with the board.
Girl, that cannot be what you are wearing.
ELIZABETH: Oh, I, uh, I spilled my coffee.
ANA: Oh god.
I've been meaning to ask you.
I still haven't received dimensions for the prototype.
- Oh... yeah.
DON LUCAS: Elizabeth, we're up here.
ELIZABETH: Hi, Don. - Hey.
Sweetheart, you're so skinny,
you should eat something.
RAKESH: Come on, baby,
Come on, baby. Come on.
Fuck.
- The sealing between the channels-- - Sucks! Yeah.
Uncontrolled mixing is going to kill result accuracy.
- So you agree?
- Well, it's not ready for the Pfizer trial.
- No.
I'll tell her.
- I mean, she'll get it.
It-it-it's, it's people. We can't test this on people.
- No.
DON: They're all waitin' for you.
ELIZABETH: Wow.
Oh wow. [jackhammer rumbling]
Hi. Hi, guys.
Thanks for coming.
Wow...
[hammering]
[softly] It's great that, uh, we got the full board here.
[jackhammer rumbling] [Elizabeth speaking indiscernibly]
...new location, new space.
- Speak up. We can't hear you!
[all laughing]
- So we have some-- [machine whirring]
We have-- [hammering]
[loudly] We have some exciting new developments.
Including Ana Arriola who has been with us for a few months,
and Ana and Avie Tevanian know each other from Apple.
That's right. We stole her from Apple.
- Has there been any progress on the prototype?
Because I know an engineer who can come in and really ramp things up.
His name is Brendan Morris.
- Thank you, but we are full steam ahead.
What do you think they're talking about?
- He's worried about the Novartis contract, Avie.
Says it hasn't come through.
- Well, tell him that, that we have plenty of pharmaceutical interest.
- Well, I haven't seen any of the contracts.
I mean, nobody's talking about it except Avie,
but he'll bring it up.
I don't know how long he'll listen to me,
but what do you want me to do?
- I need friends on the board.
- Of course, I'm there for you.
- You know, I-I've been thinking, um...
when we get into this new office space,
we should--
you should come on as, as a consultant.
- I'm already a consultant.
- Right, but it will be more formal.
Like, you would have your own office and a salary.
- Oh. Uh, that sounds perfect.
- Elizabeth.
ELIZABETH: Hi. [chuckles]
CHANNING ROBERTSON: Hi, Avie. AVIE TEVANIAN: I was, uh, I was wondering,
is, um, is there any news about Novartis?
- Uh, unfortunately, we just got word that it's not going to work out.
- Oh.
Really? Uh, what happened?
I thought you said the contracts were in the final stages.
- It's, it's complicated.
Um, but I'd like to, I'd like to really focus right now
on, on the new space.
- Yeah, um, I'm just--
The projections build in the revenue from the Novartis deal.
Should, should we even be looking at this space
if we don't have that revenue anymore?
- Well, uh, we're finalizing contracts with Pfizer.
- You are? - Yeah.
- Uh, I read the information you sent out,
and you haven't had a successful validation study
with actual patients yet.
- Well, that's a formality.
- Validating that the machine works is a formality.
DON: Elizabeth?
- Look, um, I'm here to help you.
That's why you have a board. To help.
My father was an entrepreneur.
I understand there are ups and downs.
- Yeah, we have plenty of pharmaceutical interest,
including Pfizer, so--
- Yes, but are you going through with the Pfizer trial?
Because Ana told me--
- You talked to Ana?
- Well, she says she hasn't seen the device yet.
She hasn't even gotten dimensions for it.
- If you want to know, you just, you can ask me.
- I am asking you. That is what I'm doing.
- We are going through with the trial.
- You're going forward with the Pfizer trial?
- Yes, we are. We are ready.
Uh, you know, if you, if you'll excuse me,
I have to, I have to go talk to Don.
- Wait, uh, wait, your, um...
your--
[phones ringing, office chatter]
- We need to find out which employees are talking to each other.
- How should I--
how do you want me to do that?
- Oh, I don't know.
Friend them on Facebook and then find out
who's friends with each other.
- Friend every employee in the company on Facebook to spy on them?
- That's what I said. Okay?
- Also...
I searched for Richard Fuisz.
The IT guys found this.
They said it was randomly sent to info@theranos.com,
the general email.
So apparently, he just patented an alert
for a home blood-testing device,
and they think you might have to buy him out.
- I need to get Legal on the phone.
I need to hire a security team and no one knows about this, okay?
- Okay.
♪ tense music ♪
[door closes]
Oh, should I come back or--
Do you want a, a shirt? - It's okay.
♪
Fuck!
[indiscernible chatter]
Yeah--
Yes, but would you be willing--
Hi. Sorry.
- I ordered for you. - No, no, no.
That-that's not what I'm saying at all.
- Soba noodles with miso-infused locally grown pumpkin.
Like, what?
From a pumpkin patch? - Yes, that should not be a problem.
I look forward to talking after Nashville.
Yeah, okay.
Bye. Yeah. Bye.
[sighs] - Pfizer?
- Yeah, I'm, I'm, I'm going ahead with the validation study.
- With cancer patients? You're ready to test it on people?
- It's just a trial. That's-- everybody does trials.
What? [Sunny sighs]
- You're 40 minutes late.
- I just found out that Richard Fuisz,
my neighbor growing up,
is trying to get me to buy a patent off of him.
Avie Tevanian was asking about our cash flow at the site,
so I had to show him that we were moving
on the pharmaceutical contracts.
So I had to say yes to Pfizer, and--
I don't, I don't want this. - It's okay. You can leave it.
Can you get off your phone, we're eating.
- I can't, I can't do this. I have to get back to the office
- Then I'll come with you. I'll help. - No.
Just no?
- I, I don't want them to think that I need my boyfriend's help.
- No one knows I'm your boyfriend.
No one knows who I am.
- I can't do one thing wrong.
I can't give them one reason to doubt me,
or I will lose my company.
They will take it away, okay.
I'll-I'll see you at home.
- Excuse me.
Excuse me!
This has truffle oil in it.
- Oh, um, there's no truffle oil in this--
- You think I don't know what truffle oil smells like, don't you?
- No, no, I-- - That table over there has truffle oil.
And that table and that table?
I can smell fucking truffle oil from a mile away.
- I'll take this back to the kitchen.
♪
- Hey, what do you run on that computer, Mac or Windows?
- I'm a Mac!
"I'm a Mac." "I'm a PC." Never mind.
Uh, why do you want to know? Are you putting in spyware?
♪ tense music ♪
[beeping]
- Sir, you can't go in there.
If you don't work in engineering, you don't go in the lab.
- Uh, uh, Edmund Ku is in Nashville,
and he asked me to check on things.
- Employees are siloed to their own departments.
- Well, would I be allowed to knock in Morse code.
- I can check.
REPORTER: [on TV] Problems with the housing market
are making news tonight.
And now there is even more stark evidence
of how serious things are getting in this country.
State officials in Ohio have announced
they will issue $100 million in taxable bonds...
- Hello, I'm Elizabeth Holmes from Theranos.
We're doing a study for Pfizer.
REPORTER: ...are called subprime loans.
And the explosive growth in this kind of lending...
- Is the doctor here?
- Hey, listen up. Important question.
Did anyone else get a friend request from Elizabeth's assistant?
Damn, I thought it was just me.
- Uh, Rakesh, you're a celebrated engineer.
Tell me, do you think this book's heavy enough
to keep the door open?
- It's one hundred percent not heavy enough.
- Hah. Well, that's where you're wrong because--
Oh.
Oh, sorry.
♪ foreboding music ♪
Can I help you at all?
- I'm just taking a look around.
♪
- My-my name is Ian Gibbons.
Do-do I know you?
Your face is familiar somehow.
- Sunny Balwani.
I'm an unofficial consultant.
♪
I have some questions.
AVIE: It's all there.
I mean, there is nothing there.
Look, I really, I like Elizabeth, I do,
but don't you think it's strange that we haven't seen a single contract?
Absolutely nothing to back up any of these projections.
I'm not saying it's her fault. She's a kid.
She is not ready to be CEO.
She needs adult supervision.
I tried to email you, but--
Why don't you have email? - Because I've been sued too many times.
Look, this may not be the way they do it at Apple.
I do things by my gut.
I trust her. - Don...
you are too close to this.
You have brunch with her every weekend.
You are practically acting like her father.
- Avie, as far as I'm concerned, you should tender your resignation.
- What? - I'm asking you to resign.
- You're firing me from the board? - I'm asking you--
- Is that what your gut says you should do?
- Tonight!
Tonight.
- Fine.
Just start asking questions.
She is lying to you.
[door closes]
[sighs]
- Helena had stage four breast cancer by the time we caught it.
Too late for most treatment options.
- I'm toast.
[chuckles]
♪ pensive music ♪
♪
- Wrong side.
- Right, right. Sorry.
- So, uh, it's actually, it's very simple.
You're going to have a finger puncture.
All we need is a drop of blood.
HELENA: Been stuck so many times, I got no veins left.
Y'all are doing a good thing here.
- Hold on. Uh, it's, um--
Excuse me, I'm sorry. I-I just forgot something.
Just one second.
[breathing heavily]
- What are you doing?
Get back in there, Edmond.
- Elizabeth, it doesn't work yet. It's not even close to working yet.
- It's not supposed to work, it's a trial.
- This isn't what I do.
I-I work with machines, I work with tech. I don't--
How can we ask these people to, to--
- These people know that they're participating in a trial.
This is how these things are done, Edmond.
- This isn't you.
Elizabeth.
- Go back in there.
[Edmond sighs] [door opens]
EDMOND: Uh, so when you take this home with you,
just remember that, uh,
it's very, very delicate,
and so it can't be near a window
or an AC unit or a heater.
And, um,
and it, and it can't get wet.
- Thank you.
[door opens]
SUNNY: You're back? How was Nashville?
- Good. Just unpacking.
The patients kn-kn-know
that they're participating in a trial.
Go back in there, Edmond.
[deeper voice] Go back in there, Edmond.
Go back in there... Go back in there, Edmond.
This is an inspiring step forward.
An inspiring step forward.
[deeper] An inspiring step forward.
[cell phone rings]
Don.
- Avie is out.
- Good. He didn't understand the vision.
- You've told me everything I need to know. Right?
ELIZABETH: Yeah, I just got back from Nashville.
Don, this is an inspiring step forward--
- You have a cold?
- [normal voice] Uh, no. No, I'm fine, uh--
Everything's fine.
- So, uh, how was Nashville?
- I can't talk about it. It's, um, you know, NDA.
- What? Oh, this is terrible.
Suddenly, everyone's on a need-to-know basis.
Well, I need to know.
My whole job is needing to know.
Um...
who's that?
- That is Brendan Morris.
She brought in a new engineer.
We're not moving fast enough, apparently.
- We don't know what he's working on.
He just goes into the office and shuts the door.
[scoffs]
- Hang on. I've got an idea.
[knocking]
- Yeah. - Good day, sir.
I have the package you ordered, and I think it's best
that I come into your office and set it down.
- That box is already open,
and it's got an empty Snapple bottle inside of it.
- Well, you ordered it.
So, yeah, if you're the one who ordered it, then I--
[both chuckling] Damn.
- I have an idea. [clears throat]
BRENDAN MORRIS: Goddamn.
[sighs] Yeah.
- Hello. Could you tell us what you're working on?
[whirring]
- Obviously, I'm going in a different direction.
- You've repurposed a glue-dispensing robot.
- Yeah.
Check it out.
[beep] [whirring, rattling]
[overlapping chatter]
- The point is you hired another engineer
to create a completely different prototype.
- If-if-if I may, you see, his machine is not microfluidics.
He's just reprogrammed a--
- It's a fucking glue bot.
- If you don't like it, then get your version to work better.
- Are you trying to pit us against each other?
What are you doing?
You-you want us to compete against an automated arm?
- I want something to actually work.
- Is this because of what happened in Nashville?
- [deeper voice] Nashville was an inspiring step forward.
Are we done?
[normal voice] What? - Is this what you want,
what Brendan's doing?
He's just miniaturizing a process that already exists.
It's big and ugly, and it's not new.
And, and it's not your vision.
I'm worried that perhaps this is all my fault.
Perhaps I answered
the consultant's questions in the wrong way.
- Consultant?
- Yes, a man called Sunny.
He came while you were in Nashville,
and asked us questions. - What are you talking about?
- Well, he said-- - When I was in Nashville?
No.
You did not answer his questions wrong.
Uh,
I-I-I can't talk about this right now, Ian.
- Okay.
Uh, right.
ELIZABETH: You can't just show up at my office.
You told them that you were a consultant?
- Do you want to talk about that
or the fact you're 10 years away from the promises you made to the board?
- How do you know that?
- What's your plan?
Just keep everything from the board forever?
- What is that?
- It's green juice. I bought it for you.
It's healthy.
If you're going to work 20 hours a day, you need to eat healthier.
- So what are you saying? You think I look bad?
- You look like shit.
Do you know why I went to your office?
Because I don't like the way you treat me.
- How do I treat you?
- You dismiss me. You act like I'm some guy hanging around.
I founded a company. I ran it. I sold it.
- Yeah, and that really impressed me when I was 18.
- You know what I saw when I went to your office?
- What?
- No one respects you.
No one listens to you.
They talk behind your back. They make fun of you.
They're laughing at you, Elizabeth.
You're in over your head. You're going to lose everything.
But go ahead, keep ignoring me. Keep dismissing me.
- This juice is disgusting. I hate it.
Disgusting. - Drink it.
- No.
- Drink it.
- No.
- It cost $12. Drink it, it's good for you.
- I don't care how much it cost.
- Elizabeth! - Go fuck yourself, Sunny.
I don't give a fuck. - Don't throw it out!
Don't throw it out!
♪ tense music ♪
[Sunny sobbing]
[breathes deeply]
- Are you coming to bed?
[crying]
[turns off water]
Here at Theranos...
[sniffles]
we... we are developing
[inhales deeply]
new technology.
[voice breaking] This is an inspiring step forward.
[clears throat] This is an inspiring step forward.
[deeper voice] Here at Theranos,
we are developing
new technology.
[clears throat]
[deeper voice] Here... at Theranos,
we are developing new technology.
New technology--
This is an inspiring step
forward.
Forward.
This is an inspiring step forward.
- I shouldn't have had you meet me here.
- I just thought this would be better face-to-face.
- Drive around the block.
♪
[beep]
[machine whirring, rattling]
[whirring, rattling continues]
[applause]
- Alright. Very nice.
It's, uh, it's not there yet, but we're getting closer.
- I think it needs a name.
- How about Gluebot?
[light laughter] - Edison.
I'm calling it The Edison.
And this is the direction that we're going in.
[office chatter]
♪ mournful music ♪
- No, sir, I can't let you-- - Wait, no, that's my X-ACTO knife.
It's not the intellectual property of Theranos.
- Just doing my job, sir. - Come on, it's his X-ACTO knife.
- Sir, please take a step--
- That is my X-ACTO knife, and I like the way it cuts things, please.
- Come on, hold on-- - Please take a step back.
- Okay, okay, just take it, but--
♪
[chuckles]
Uh, I, uh...
I don't have my car today, so if, um,
uh, someone can, uh, give me the number of a cab company.
- Alright, let's go.
♪
[door closes]
♪
♪ eerie music playing ♪
♪
[knocking on door]
[gasping]
TESS: Elizabeth?
I'm sorry, I thought she was here.
- I'm here.
I'm here.
- Oh, hey. - What's going on?
- The legal team is ready to see you.
- Elizabeth, I need to talk to you.
- I'm so sorry. I was on a very long phone call.
Hi. What, what's going on with filing the lawsuit?
- Did you do trials on terminal cancer patients
with a prototype that didn't work?
- Uh, can we have the room please?
- Answer me. - Where did you hear that? Avie?
- Is it a secret?
- No. Uh, no. I just, uh--
- That goes against everything
I believe in-- - Ana, it was a trial.
- And I have a moral obligation to talk to you about--
- Everybody does trials.
- You know, I was trying to remember what it was I saw in you,
why I came here.
And I don't know,
I think I thought you were like me somehow,
an outsider.
- I am. That's why I have to fight to keep my job.
- No, that's why you have to care more.
I only came here because I thought we were helping people.
- I can't help anybody if I don't have a company.
- That's not the point. - Yes, it is.
I, I don't know what you want from me.
I--
You told me to be more of a CEO, and so I'm trying to do that.
I'm trying. I'm trying.
- So sorry. But, Elizabeth, I really need you.
- We can discuss this later.
Okay? Ana, please.
♪ dramatic music ♪
ANA: No. I'm quitting.
My whole team is quitting.
♪
- Make sure Ana doesn't leave the building with any property.
- I will. And-- - Oh, and she needs to sign an NDA.
- The design team quit. - Yeah.
- And one of them told me to give you these books on management.
I think it's a joke.
- Why is Don Lucas in my office?
- I don't know. That's why I came and got you.
He just showed up.
♪
- Hey, Don, I didn't know that you had-- - Shut the door.
- Uh, how, uh,
how are you doing?
- Not one of these contracts is even close to being done.
- I know.
I just, I didn't want to alert the board of-- to the mechanics--
- Stop the game.
I just spent an hour with your accountant going over all this.
You lied to me.
- I know things have not been going
as smoothly as they should have.
And that's my fault.
But I brought on Brendan Morris,
who is developing the-- a version of our prototype--
- I'm going to call for a vote of no confidence from the board.
You will no longer be CEO of Theranos.
You had a good idea.
You're just not ready yet.
[yells]
- Aaah!
Tess.
Could you, um,
make me an appointment
at the Genius Bar, please?
♪
- What was the name for the account?
- Uh, Elizabeth Holmes.
- Good news, you're insured,
so we can just go ahead and replace the entire phone today.
Do you want to give me your phone?
- Are you going to be able to see what's on it?
- Just for a few seconds.
I'm going to go ahead and back it up to our drive.
It should only take a few minutes.
Your secrets are safe with me.
So how are you?
I know it can be hard being without your phone.
Are you from around here? Do you go to, like, school nearby?
- St-- uh, Stanford.
- Oh, awesome.
I'm kind of in between schools at the moment,
so I thought I'd work as a Genius
until I could figure out what I want to do.
- What was your dream as a child?
- As a child?
No, I don't think I had any dreams as a child.
- That sounds nice.
- What does?
- Not knowing what you want to do with your life.
- It's not nice, it's scary.
- Why are you scared?
You can do anything, anything that you want.
- Thank you.
- Because it, it doesn't really matter, right?
Nothing you do will matter because you don't really care.
I mean, you, you, you have no ambition.
You don't want to do anything important.
You're just a person.
- Uh--
Now it should, um--
Oh no.
No, no.
I don't know what happened, but, um, all of your information is--
I mean, it-it's just, it's gone.
I'm so sorry, I--
I-I did everything right.
I mean, I followed all of the steps.
I, I was just too quick to, um--
I'm so sorry.
- Elizabeth, we're ready for you.
♪
- Ah, Elizabeth.
You are here because we collectively
have lost confidence in your ability
to continue on as CEO of this company.
You have misrepresented the revenue stream.
You have been unable to manage research and development.
You have continuously, time after time, missed deadline
resulting in the withdrawal of our contracts
from pharmaceutical companies,
including, we just found out, Pfizer.
Pfizer stated it can no longer go forward
based upon the results of its validation study in Nashville.
Your design team has resigned.
And last but not least, this,
this man, Richard Fuisz,
has filed a competing patent.
[chuckles] This is a mess.
I mean, you have to understand where we're coming from here.
You need adult supervision.
We've decided that Tom here
should step in as acting CEO
until we can find somebody else.
- Of course, yeah, I...
I understand.
I just--
I did everything right.
I... I followed all the steps.
I did it too quick.
And I'm sorry.
I got ahead of myself, and all your concerns are valid.
You're right. I am in over my head.
I'm just a girl
who had a dream to change the world.
[voice breaking] And I just didn't realize
how hard it was going to be.
I need help.
You're absolutely right. I need adult supervision.
[sniffling]
And that's...
that's why I reached out to an old friend
to come on board and help me.
He offered to bring in $20 million
and come on as COO,
but only if I'm still the CEO, obviously.
But that's up to you.
Don?
Can you forgive me?
He had an idea that I'd love to get your advice on.
He thinks that
we should forget pharmaceutical companies
and try to target retail.
Create our own retail space... like an Apple Store.
I don't know.
What do you think?
♪
[door opens, closes]
- I'm in here.
It's not working between us.
I know that.
You could stay here for a while until you find your own place.
I'll move out. - No. No.
- Oh, come on, I can't let you move out.
- No.
Come work with me.
- Do you want that?
- I need a $20 million investment.
- So the board will keep you as CEO.
You already told them you had it.
- Yes.
♪ upbeat music playing ♪
- Twelve million.
- Twenty. And you can be COO.
♪ Amy Winehouse's Back to Black playing ♪
♪ He left no time to regret ♪
♪ Kept his dick wet ♪
♪ With his same old safe bet ♪
♪ Me ♪
♪ And my head high ♪
♪ And my tears dry ♪
♪ Get on without my guy ♪
- I quit.
- Come on. Come on.
♪ Going back to what you know ♪
♪ So far removed ♪
♪ From all that we went through ♪
♪ And I tread ♪
♪ A troubled track ♪
♪ My odds are stacked ♪
♪ I'll go back to black ♪
- She's suing me?
Are you kidding?
No, I'm not taking those.
I am not taking those.
Hey!
♪ You go back to her ♪
♪ And I go back to ♪
LAWYER: And by the end of 2008,
Sunny Balwani came on as COO.
And you bought back some shares of the company.
- Yes, I had a controlling stake.
♪ You go back to her and I go back to ♪
SUNNY: Ready?
♪ We only said goodbye with words ♪
♪ I died a hundred times ♪
♪ You go back to her ♪
♪ And I go back to ♪
♪
ELIZABETH: I wanna be a billionaire.
It's not about the money.
You have to have a purpose.
- What are you afraid of? ELIZABETH: I can't do one thing wrong.
I can't give them one reason to doubt me.
I'm going to be on the cutting edge of healthcare.
It's going to change the world.
MAN: Everything' s changing.
These kids don't get bogged down about the way things have always been done.
They want to change things now!
ELIZABETH: We launch in 48 hours.
We did it!
PHYLLIS GARDNER: I don't believe a word she says.
MAN 2: There's something going on.
Why are they not actively seeking FDA approval?
- Her whole image is fake.
- You don't understand the business. - And you don't understand the science!
ELIZABETH: This isn't just my company.
This is who I am.
- There's only one thing you need to know about Elizabeth. She's a fraud.
- I know you want to believe everything she's saying is real.
- The way Theranos is operating, someone is gonna get killed.
- You're going to lose everything.
[screaming]
- No, I'm, I'm fine. Everything's fine.
♪