Whenever I'm going to write a review I try to find some inspiration so I don't write a nonsense, and today before writing about a series that I just finished watching I found this documentary on HBO and immediately knew I had to write about it.

A documentary that shows us another of the hidden face behind the technology companies that often take advantage of the search for innovation to deceive the world and make money.

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The Catch

The documentary tells the story of a great company led by the empowering and creative mind of a woman who proposed a new way to revolutionize blood testing and sample collection system, all through a machine capable of doing all types of analysis super complex but accurately from a tiny sample of blood, basically the woman said to have the technology capable of making blood analysis more accurate and with less amount of sample (blood). Something that made the pharmaceutical giants and other global investment groups goes berserk at such a revolutionary idea.

The woman achieved through a media campaign trick the world to raise hundreds of millions of dollars that would serve as capital for the full and complete development of her revolutionary technology, however, everything was an idea, a trick, a dream. The young woman obsessed with Steve Jobs only promoted an idea that never carried out and that instead used as an attractive factor, a bait that lots of people took.

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The Obssesion of a Woman to Emulate Steve Jobs

Elizabeth Holmes was inevitably obsessed with the visionary Steve Jobs, even dressed like him. Maybe that's why she was trying to create something that wasn't possible, something that defies everything that was known technologically in the pharmaceutical field. And that's not bad, after all what would be the world without visionaries. The really bad thing is that you worry more about how your technology looks, how your company looks and how your reputation is, instead of focusing on the technology that you have promised or rather that you have proclaimed you possess. Elizabeth Holmes's company never came close to creating the technology they promised, yet they used technology used and dumped from other companies to make false proofs and incorrect samples.

It's incredible how this woman's stubbornness got to the point of putting at risk patients, employees, and people who just wanted to help the project, collaborating in any way they could.

The documentary achieves incredibly in showing the most critical facts that Elizabeth Holmes organized to continue deceiving the world. A woman blinded by her despotism and arrogance, refused to receive help and instead marginalized any possible "traitor" or detractor. A visionary of whom Steve Jobs would have been disappointed because unlike him she never fulfilled what she promised to the masses.

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Summary

This is a documentary that shows us in the most realistic way something that maybe is proliferating more and more in the companies and technological initiatives, that in craving for attention and money dare to promise things that are unable to make reality.

It is also interesting to see the whole process that existed behind a lie as big as Theranos, a company that placed itself in the top based on lies and false promises, all to end abruptly doing the same analysis in the same way (worse) as those who criticized so much.

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