A fake empire
How to fake it until you’re found out to be a complete fraud
5 min readMar 13, 2019
One of the biggest podcast hits of the year is The Dropout, a documentary about Elizabeth Holmes’ sham billion-dollar company Theranos, which falsely promised to revolutionize health care.
The reporting talks about how Holmes — a college drop-out like her idol Steve Jobs — affected a fake low-pitched voice to…