Who is Elizabeth Holmes? New documentary ‘You Can See Everything’ brings the Theranos scandal back into the spotlight

The new documentary ‘You Can See Everything’ was released in the United States and Canada on October 16, 2026. Directed by Nathan Fielder, the documentary saw a massive domestic box office opening of $15m, according to The Guardian. The documentary revolves around Elizabeth Holmes, the disgraced founder of the infamous blood testing company Theranos.

Thirty-four days before she's sent to prison, notorious Theranos founder Elizabeth Holmes invites a skeptical film crew to document her every move. What begins as an intimate portrait becomes a mind-bending three-year journey.

The Guardian reported that the documentary was made in secret over three years. Fielder spent more than a month with Elizabeth and her family, including her two young children and her partner, Billy Evans. The concept and filming of the documentary began taking shape around thirty-four days before she was sent to prison.


The documentary was released on 855 screens, and it saw the biggest opening for a documentary in North America since Fahrenheit 9/11 in 2004, according to the news outlet.

Who is Elizabeth Holmes

Elizabeth Holmes is the disgraced founder of Theranos. The company claimed that it could run several medical tests with the help of small finger-prick blood samples. Prior to that, she enrolled at Stanford University in 2002 to study chemical engineering.

According to IMDb. After completing her first year, she worked at the Genome Institute of Singapore on research involving blood samples from SARS patients. She left the university. In 2003, when she was 19 years old, she left Stanford to start Real-Time Cures. It was later renamed Theranos.

Besides being a founder, Elizabeth also served as the company’s chief executive. According to Forbes, Theranos raised more than $700 million from investors. The company’s investors included billionaires Rupert Murdoch and Larry Ellison. They had valued the company at $9 billion.

In 2014, Elizabeth tasted success, and Forbes named her the world's youngest self-made woman billionaire when she was 30 years old. She had a net worth of $4.5 billion at the time.

2015 investigation, regulatory actions, and the downfall

Things began to fall apart for Elizabeth and her infamous company Theranos after a 2015 Wall Street Journal investigation brought them under scrutiny. Several questions emerged about its technology and testing practices. Trouble mounted for the company as regulatory actions and lawsuits followed.

In June 2016, Forbes revised its net worth estimate for Holmes to $0. This revision came as new information emerged suggesting that the company faced a string of investigations from federal agencies.

Nearly two years later, Holmes settled civil fraud charges brought by the U.S. Securities and Exchange Commission in March 2018. As a part of the settlement deal, she paid $500,000. She also returned shares and accepted a ten-year ban from leading a public company, according to IMDb.


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She was indicted along with former Theranos president Ramesh "Sunny" Balwani in June of that year. In January 2022, things went bad to worse for Elizabeth when a jury convicted Holmes of one conspiracy count and three wire-fraud counts involving investors. She was acquitted on four counts.

Later that year, she received a 135-month federal prison sentence and three years of supervised release. Holmes and Balwani were also ordered to pay about $452 million in restitution.