At one point, she emailed Parloff to tell him, “As you know we want to generally keep the focus off the hardware. This didn’t seem true, either - particularly given Theranos’ struggles with quality.Īs Parloff’s testimony went on, I noticed how well she seemed to be playing him. “Before the article comes out, we may have a new batch,” she added. But only 200 tests are offered on the website, she claimed, because “we have operationalized certain tasks, expecting a certain set of ordering patterns.” The 200 are the most commonly-done ones, she said, “but we are adding to it.” In another recording, Holmes said that she thought Theranos could do 1,000 tests on its proprietary machines. Earlier in the trial, Mattis testified that to his knowledge, Theranos devices were never used overseas. James “Mad Dog” Mattis, about it - it was off the record, and besides, Mattis couldn’t talk about it. She went on to say that Theranos devices had been used in Afghanistan, but he was not to ask her board member, Gen. Later, Holmes told Parloff that Theranos has “done work overseas for pharmaceutical companies and a little bit with foreign governments in the past, but right now we’ve got our work cut out for us here.” She went on to say that Theranos devices had been used in Afghanistan That was a lie - we’ve heard testimony that Theranos devices couldn’t perform more than a handful of tests. “Our platform can yield - I’m thinking of the best way to say this - we can do all those tests, so we can provide data back to clinicians for all the same tests,” she responded. He asked Holmes if Theranos did all those tests, too. (Or, for that matter, any third-party analyzers.) He also toured the manufacturing facilities in Newark, California, which he said was “not a buzzing factory - no assembly lines or anything.” He went to a Walgreens and got his blood drawn with a fingerstick.ĭuring the course of their conversation, Parloff pointed out that Quest Diagnostics did 600 different tests. He toured the Palo Alto headquarters of Theranos.
Parloff interviewed Holmes - as well as a who’s who of Theranos notables, including former Secretary of State Henry Kissinger, former Stanford professor Channing Robertson, and Mark Laret, the CEO of UCSF Medical Center. He profiled Theranos after he noticed fancy celebrity lawyer David Boies had been arguing on behalf of a company Parloff had never heard of - and had won the case. Parloff has about 10 hours of taped conversations with Holmes, the founder and former CEO of Theranos. We’ve heard a lot about Parloff’s article in US v Elizabeth Holmes, because it was frequently sent to prospective investors as part of the materials Holmes supplied about the company. Lying to reporters is not illegal, but it’s generally a bad idea since we tend to record our conversations. Parloff has about 10 hours of taped conversations with Holmes
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