How Elizabeth Holmes convinced powerful men like Henry Kissinger, James Mattis, and George Shultz to sit on the board of Theranos
"Secretary Mattis was struck by the promise of technology and was looking for any technology solution to save lives on the battlefield,"Auletta in the documentary said the board members spoke about Holmes as if she were a visionary.
"They were talking about her as if she were Beethoven, as if she was this rare creature that maybe one in a century or two in a century come along who really can change the world," Auletta said. Kissinger, for instance, told Auletta that Holmes had an"ethereal quality.""She is like a member of a monastic order," Kissinger said.
Kissinger, however, wasn't a fan of the length of the board meetings. He told Auletta that he had complained to Holmes. "The board meetings, this is a human-rights violation," Kissinger recalled saying to Holmes in his interview with Auletta., said in the documentary that the reputations of the board members, especially Kissinger, gave credibility to what the company was doing. Editor's note: This article was initially published in March 2019 and has been updated after Elizabeth Holmes reported to prison on May 30.
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