How Elizabeth Holmes' rhetoric changed over time

Elizabeth Holmes, founder of Theranos, has been found guilty on four of 11 charges of fraud, concluding a high-profile trial that captivated Silicon Valley and chronicled the missteps of the now-defunct blood testing startup. The Guardian looks back at how Holmes' rhetoric changed over time as the company ultimately fell short of its ambitious pledge

[Kmng]

Seeing Elizabeth Holmes in this video, you can't deny that Amanda Seyfried played her flawlessly perfect. If her performance made you uncomfortable, that's the point. This is a disgrace person, Seyfried was phenomenal in the role. Rooting for her to get an Emmy nomination

[kwaishiu]

What gets me is all these people and media were buying into her mega bs and not listening to experts and scientists who disputed her lies

[poshko]

She wasn’t even charismatic or charming at the company’s “peak.” She was freaking creepy.

[gemmeldrakes]

Like all con artists, she told people what they wanted to hear, flattered her audience, answered serious questions with evasive buzzword answers and denigrated anyone who expressed scepticism. Always be on your guard.

[charmagneq]

The people she hurt and the lies she told are staggering and devastating. The fact that she was able to keep this sham up for so long is baffling.

[chanmarr]

I don’t understand why she wasn’t also charged with life endangerment. She sold a faulty product, playing with people’s lives.

[RixMorales]

What's infuriating was that she drove someone to his death, the same man who she conned then made into a scapegoat. RIP Ian Gibbons, you finally got the justice you deserved

[awesomedez]

And no one listened to a single qualified scientist before giving her all that money.

[pauloakwood]

She flourished in this con because so many powerful people wanted it to be true. She so fit their fashionable narrative. A young female CEO using high tech (stuff no one really understood, ) to change the world. She was right out of central casting. They so wanted it to be true that they continued to support her long after experts were calling this a con.

[richarduk]

Is it just me, or does Elizebeth Holmes look like she’s related to Mark Zuckerberg?

[twebster]

I've done a couple of school reports on her and I continue to be amazed at the number of intelligent, well-known people that were fooled by this woman.

[ASURAN]

I can't believe the jurors ended up acquitting her for those 4 counts. What she's swindling, at the end of the day, involves test diagnostics outcomes, which impacted patients. They are not errors that are acceptable with a small margin of errors. Those acts were deliberate.

[Jacques-Le-Marois]

Compulsive liar and having a baby while awaiting trial is about as cynical a move that I have seen! It’s actually pretty sick.

[MrBillygoatgriff]

I don't think Bill's reason for being excited about her being 19 is the same as everyone else's.

[chaerisarang]

What puzzles me is how she got people to believe her without solid evidence that her “invention” worked when she’s not even close to being charming or charismatic.

[alvarogines]

The crazy thing is that for sure there are hundreds of Elizabeth Holmes around

[brainstormingsharing]

🔴 Considering everything she did, she deserves a much, much more longer sentence ❗Considering that people from all over the world get the same or even longer sentences for much, much less than what she did ❗

[guitarlearningtoplay]

Man that is sociopathic to lie like that. I wanna hear her real voice some day

[JoeLackey]

She's like an AI who tries to blend into society but just seems off the whole time.

[baybae]

We should’ve known when she named it the “nanotainer.” Something wasn’t right 😂