doing and that's where the criminal charges come in for this behavior years ago and this case and trial have gotten substantially bumped because of covid it also got bumped a little bit because elizabeth holmes just gave birth and is newly postpartum which some have speculated is a empathy strategy that if she was showing during trial with you know sitting at the defense table with a big pregnant belly that jurors might be more inclined to believe her some are like oh it just happened you knew trial was coming though like she had successfully not gotten pregnant up until now so i can understand why people have speculation regarding it but this company was to the moon right it was a unicorn it had hundreds of million invested and a nine billion dollar valuation elizabeth holmes was the founder of this company at NUMBER_TOKEN she had dropped out of stanford and started wearing black turtlenecks like steve jobs and some speculate change her voice so it would be deeper it's a from the interviews i've watched and i've watched quite a bit at this point it is fairly affected which also i found offensive as someone who was picked on for having a low voice as a female most of my life for her to put that on was like oh stop it's hard to listen to but she told a good story that she wanted no one to say goodbye to family members too soon and particularly during covet i think that sentiment hits so many no one wants to say goodbye too soon but she really leaned into those pressure points and then those within the company who raised questions were told that they just didn't believe in the mission and the company started pushing out those that asked questions and here as we round about get back to my take away asking questions is still critical and it is necessary and it is the thing that we should be doing even when it's not popular because i know that there are times when it feels like asking a question is going to have you labeled or ostracized we have to be able to still have respectful discourse and ask questions so that like this doesn't happen it's the same in the gen shaw case who was asking questions about how this business was working well the ftc was she was deposed by them before we got to this criminal prosecution that she's in with some similar charges different behavior but similar charges here and that act of asking questions put the whistleblowers in this case at risk they were threatened and harassed by attorneys they were followed it's quite staggering to listen to and brian and i sat down and watched the inventor which is on hbo and yahoo finance has something coming out on youtube actually today about this case as well because as we're gearing up for trial there's naturally more interest in like wait what was that again i don't remember what happened with theranos what theranos every single time what happened remind me again so there's quite a lot of information out there but as we were watching it she built her board of directors with well-connected individuals people who were former secretaries of state generals and four-star generals from the military very very large personalities and reputations and watching that brian was like do you think that she was building this board to get government contracts and i was like i didn't even think of it because my head was more in like the tom gerardi space
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