Content overview: “How John Carreyrou Exposed Elizabeth Holmes: The Reporter Behind the Theranos Scandal on N”. John Carreyrou, the Pulitzer Prize-winning journalist whose Wall Street Journal reporting brought down Elizabeth Holmes and her blood-testing startup Theranos, is now a central figure in Nathan Fielder’s documentary “You Can See Everything.” The film revisits Holmes’s rise and fall, using Carreyrou’s investigative work as a lens to examine how deception at scale can thrive in Silicon Valley. Carreyrou’s 2015 exposés revealed that Theranos’s Edison device, which Holmes claimed could run hundreds of tests on a single drop of blood, was largely a sham—a revelation that led to criminal charges and Holmes’s conviction on four counts of fraud in 2022.
Holmes was sentenced to 11.25 years in prison and ordered to pay $452 million in restitution to investors. The documentary, which premiered at the 2024 Sundance Film Festival, features Carreyrou’s interviews and archival footage, offering a sobering look at the cult of the founder and the failures of due diligence. The full version stays on the original page, which this listing opens directly.