A sociopath is often described as someone with little or no conscience. I’ll leave it to the psychologists to decide whether Holmes fits the clinical profile, but there’s no question that her moral compass was badly askew. I’m fairly certain she didn’t initially set out to defraud investors and put patients in harm’s way when she dropped out of Stanford fifteen years ago. By all accounts, she had a vision that she genuinely believed in and threw herself into realizing. But in her all-consuming quest to be the second coming of Steve Jobs amid the gold rush of the “unicorn” boom, there came a point when she stopped listening to sound advice and began to cut corners. Her ambition was voracious and it brooked no interference. If there was collateral damage on her way to riches and fame, so be it.

Excellently paced exposé on both Theranos and its CEO/founder, Elizabeth Holmes. The science behind their "proprietary secrets" was easily explained for the layman (i.e. me) to understand the terrible ramifications of what they did do (lied to several thousand patients about the veracity of their blood tests) and what could have happened, if this hadn't come to light (more than one death due to negligence, no doubt).