The tech world reacts to the Elizabeth Holmes doc

Elizabeth Holmes is back on the argent screen, and the tech earth has has thoughts.

Holmes, the disgraced Theranos founder, is the topic of Nathan Fielder and Lance Oppenheim's new documentary, "You Can See Everything."

Holmes was convicted of defrauding investors following her blood-testing startup falsely claimed it could run hundreds of diagnostic tests from a small amount of blood. She has consistently denied wrongdoing.

Since the film's theatrical publish on Friday (it grossed an notable $15 million in its beginning weekend), group who activity in and about tech have been sharing their reactions.

And don't concern if you haven't seen the movie yet: We're keeping it spoiler-free.

Holmes' legacy

Audiences can't pin downward how they awareness concerning the film's chief characters.

John Loeber, a San Francisco-based capitalist and the erstwhile CEO of Limit, stated the movie brought him rear to a 2019 gathering whenever he ran into Holmes and her partner, Billy Evans.

"Double take. She's not in jail?" he wrote Saturday on X concerning the encounter. Seeing them on display was likewise "uncanny."

"I have never before seen a movie anywhere I have personally met the foremost cast. And I was not prepared for the flat of astonishment and weirdness in seeing their faces — particularly Billy, whom I had not idea concerning in seven years — on the big screen," he wrote.

Nick White, a erstwhile application engineer turned YouTube and Kick streamer, stated the movie reminded him of "why I remaining the tech industry."

"There are so many narcissistic, misguided morons in that industry who genuinely accept they're geniuses," he wrote on X.

Last week, onward of the doc's release, a tech assemblage got a sneak peek of the doc at a Manhattan movie theater rented out by AI startup Extend — Business Insider newsman Henry Chandonnet was there.

That spectators couldn't resolve on what to create of Holmes, either. Some stated she had rotate into a meme. Others called her an utter psychopath, during one attendee stated the movie had unexpectedly made Holmes appear sympathetic.

Mostly 'great,' a few 'boring'

There's a range of feelings concerning the movie itself.

Songwriter Grimes — whose own imaginative occupation has circled Silicon Valley — called the movie "innovative" and called the movie's second fractional "artistic futurism."

The pseudonymous X person roon, who runs a well-followed techno-optimist Substack from Silicon Valley, called Fielder's filmmaking endowment "almost incomprehensible" — but stated he was wasting it on "some fairly boring topic matter."

John Carreyrou, the erstwhile Wall Street Journal investigative newsman whose inquiry helped disclose Theranos, disagrees. He called it "a awesome film."

Carreyrou additionally wrote an op-ed for The New York Times, published on Sunday, concerning his jealousy about the Fielder and Oppenheim's admission to Holmes — and his own worries concerning individual safety.

But the film, he wrote, is the "#BestPicture," he wrote on X, referencing its first Oscar buzz.