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    A best-selling book, hit podcast and now a new documentary: Why is everyone so obsessed with Elizabeth Holmes?

    by Amy Kaufman, Los Angeles Times Mar 20, 2019 6 minutes

    LOS ANGELES - Even before John Carreyrou was done writing "Bad Blood," he knew there were others clamoring to take a bite of the Theranos apple.

    In 2015, the Wall Street Journal reporter broke the news of the fraud being committed at the Silicon Valley start-up, a biotechnology company that promised to revolutionize the blood-testing industry by conducting hundreds of health tests with just a single drop of blood. Theranos' founder, a Stanford dropout named Elizabeth Holmes, was hailed by the media as the next Steve Jobs, in the process bamboozling the likes of Bill Clinton, George Shultz, Henry Kissinger and Betsy DeVos into singing her praises.

    Based on the strength of his Journal articles about the scandal, Carreyrou sold a book proposal about Theranos - "Bad Blood" - to Knopf in March 2016. Within weeks, word of the sale spread in Hollywood, and filmmakers began reaching out to the writer's agent at WME about adapting his manuscript into a feature film.

    By June, Carreyrou's team had struck a deal with "Vice" director Adam McKay, who quickly lined up

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