https://www.eastbaytimes.com/2021/08/29/theranos-elizabeth-holmes-criminal-trial-to-showcase-silicon-valleys-most-notorious-startup-crash/ > Nearly 20 years after she founded Silicon Valley blood-testing company Theranos — which soared to a $9 billion valuation on claims that its machines could conduct a full array of tests on just a few drops of blood — Elizabeth Holmes’ meteoric rise and dramatic fall will be laid bare in federal court, exposing Silicon Valley’s most infamous startup failure. > Nationwide interest in the proceedings, one of the highest-profile criminal cases in Bay Area history, has been primed by two documentaries, a best-selling book and news that Jennifer Lawrence will star as Holmes in an upcoming movie.