Elizabeth Holmes
7 statements across 3 episodes · 0 bullish · 5 bearish · 2 people on the record · first statement Aug 6, 2021 by Jason Calacanis · said 73 times in 13 episodes since 2021 · across every show →
Mentions by year
brought up most by David Sacks (33), Jason Calacanis (15), David Friedberg (14), Chamath Palihapitiya (10), Antonio Gracias (1)
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2026 1 mention in 1 episode
2024 2 mentions in 2 episodes 1 per episode
2023 1 mention in 1 episode
2022 20 mentions in 5 episodes 4 per episode
- E62: Elizabeth Holmes verdict, fraud origins & takeaways, navigating "The Great Markdown" & more
- E106: SBF's media strategy, FTX culpability, ChatGPT, SaaS slowdown & more
- E104: FTX collapse with Coinbase CEO Brian Armstrong + election results, macro update & more
- #AIS: Bestie AMA with Valor's Antonio Gracias
- #AIS: Opening chat with Miami Mayor Francis Suarez
- every mention in 2022, scene by scene →
2021 49 mentions in 4 episodes 12 per episode
- E47: Facebook's week from hell, Ellen Pao on sexism in Elizabeth Holmes coverage, Newsom wins & more
- E45: Theranos & VC fraud risks, China bans video games, Texas SB8, Apple app store, CA fires, Rogan
- E43: Innovative venture strategies, Zymergen's implosion, Square acquires Afterpay & more
- E32: Behind the scenes of Elon hosting SNL, CDC failures, America's real-time UBI experiment & more
- every mention in 2021, scene by scene →
Everything said about Elizabeth Holmes, oldest first
Aug 6, 2021 bearish
Sep 4, 2021 neutral
Sep 4, 2021 neutral
Sep 4, 2021 negative
Sep 18, 2021 negative
Sachs: Media overlooked Theranos red flags to champion a female Steve Jobs
“Now, did gender play into it? Yeah, but I think not necessarily in the way that Ellen Powell thinks in this sense that the media wanted to believe so badly that the next Steve Jobs was going to be a woman that they kind of look past what should have been stari…”
Sep 18, 2021 negative
Calacanis: Elizabeth Holmes premeditatedly lied by running blood tests on Abbott machines
“She obviously misled people in a premeditated way and lied to them, like taking their blood sample and then putting it in a fake machine, then doing it in the back on an Abbott machine and then bringing the results back and making it on her Theranos Edison mac…”
Sep 18, 2021 negative
Sacks: Elizabeth Holmes cannot plausibly blame Ramesh Balwani for Theranos decisions
“I think it's hard for somebody who in the moment took credit for every decision, for every piece of press, for claim to be the Jobsian micromanager, to all of a sudden now turn around and say, no, that wasn't me making the decisions. I was under the spell of s…”