January 4, 2022 Elizabeth Holmes, former CEO of the Theranos company, was convicted of scam, entering the annals of the smartest and most megalomaniacal criminals of the last fifty years. To date he risks 20 years in prison: he deceived the investors of his technology startup to which he had sold a revolutionary machine to analyze the blood of patients starting from a small drop taken from the fingertip, which had to give results in record time for over 200 types of different exams. And she fooled them into pocketing a whole bunch of millions of dollars – the incredible machine her team had actually invented had never been tested or worked, earning major newspaper covers and making it to the list of. self-made young millionaires from Forbes in 2015.
Elizabeth Holmes is the perfect model of a modern con man, a kind of Robin Hood of startups: only, instead of feeding the poor, she was actually aiming to build a millionaire reputation for herself. Although she has been exposed and despite her conviction, there are a lot of people who adore her. And that in her he sees an anti-heroine who, despite her dishonesty, managed to climb the heights of a sector that was first and foremost very male chauvinist and secondly, not very accessible.
Why do we tell this story? Because we have several examples of scammers who spark charm like Holmes. We will see one from February 11, 2022 on Netflix: the story of Anna Sorokin, then fake-heiress Anna Delveywill be at the center…
