Name: The Inventor: Out for Blood in Silicon Valley
Genre: Documentary
Released: 2019-01-24
Duration: 119 min
Rating: 7.0
Cast: Elizabeth Holmes, Alex Gibney, Dan Ariely, Roger Parloff, Ken Auletta

The Inventor: Out for Blood in Silicon Valley backdrop

2019·Documentary·1h 59m

7.0

★

With a magical new invention that promised to revolutionize blood testing, Elizabeth Holmes became the world’s youngest self-made billionaire, heralded as the next Steve Jobs. Then, overnight, her 10-billion-dollar company dissolved. The rise and fall of Theranos is a window into the psychology of fraud.

Directed by Alex Gibney

technology

fraud

business

medical research

health documentary

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Cast

Elizabeth Holmes

Self - CEO and Founder of Theranos (archive footage)

Alex Gibney

Self - Narrator / Interviewer

Dan Ariely

Self - Behavioral Economist

Roger Parloff

Self - Fortune

Phyllis Gardner

Self - Professor of Medicine, Stanford University

Errol Morris

Self

David Boies III

Self - Boies, Schiller & Flexner LLP

Charlie Rose

Self (archive footage)

Thomas A. Edison

Self (archive footage)

James Mattis

Self (archive footage)

Henry Kissinger

Self (archive footage)

Joe Biden

Self (archive footage)

Crew

Alex Gibney

Director

Alex Gibney

Writer

Will Bates

Original Music Composer

Alex Gibney

Producer

Graydon Carter

Executive Producer

Nancy Abraham

Executive Producer

Sara Bernstein

Executive Producer

Nick Bilton

Consulting Producer

Ophelia Harutyunyan

Associate Producer

Charlotte Kaufman

Additional Photography

Popular Reviews

94 reviews

J. Mae

4.0★ · 03/18/26

The Inventor: Out for Blood in Silicon Valley

A Stanford dropout trying to become the next Steve Jobs, only to invent the most famous machine that never actually existed. Wild documentary, even wilder hubris.

Fart Garcia

5.0★ · 10/17/25

At the end of the day there just really wasn’t that much subject matter for this doc and it just kept circling and saying the same things over and over again

Or maybe I just think that because it was so many dumb science nerds saying dumb science stuff and to me that all sounds like when the teacher in Charlie Brown talks.

General conclusion: shut up, science nerds

Tripp Berini

4.0★ · 08/19/25

DNF - bad doc

Javi

6.0★ · 12/09/23

I could pull this off easily

quinn

6.0★ · 06/09/23

tommy tallarico wishes