This week, we got a peek into how things at Theranos could at times be a full-on family affair. Elizabeth recruited her brother Christian to the company. He, in turn, recruited five of his Delta Tau Delta fraternity brothers to join him. The group would come to be known as “The Therabros.” We hear from one Therabro who would rise to the rank of Elizabeth’s lead of strategic operations. He interacted with VIP investors, board members, military officials and business partners, and revealed to the court what the government says was a disturbing pattern of misinformation. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices
Previously on the dropout.
Executives from Theranos biggest clients, Walgreens and Safeway, testified about their multimillion dollar deals with the blood testing startup, their own team members describing how they forged ahead even when they saw red flags.
There was just several questions that we.
Would ask that neither Sunny nor Elizabeth could respond to.
It was something that people wanted it.
To be real so badly that they were willing to kind of take people's word for some of this stuff.
And we heard from Sunny Baltimore, Balwani's dermatologist of 15 years, who would surprisingly come to service Theranos lab director with Doctor Dewan.
Everything starts turning upside down, really, because he's sunny Balwani's dermatologist, and it's the government putting another piece on that.
At this point, Theranos is running out of time, running out of money, and is trying to push forward anyway.
This week, we heard from one of Elizabeth's brother Christian's fraternity buddies from Duke.
He held a high ranking position at theranos, interacting with vip investors, board members, military officials and business partners as Elizabeth's lead of strategic operations.
We now see Elizabeth Holmes bring in the best friend of her brother to be essentially the person who implements all her programs at a very high level.
And so we're seeing an evolution from trying to bring in the best and the brightest to possibly bringing in those who would demonstrate loyalty to the company and to them individually.
And more drama from the jury pool when a third juror is dismissed.
The cause busted for playing the puzzle game Sudoku during witness testimony from ABC audio.
This is the dropout Elizabeth Holmes on trial.
Rebecca Jarvis is out this week.
I'm Elizabeth Scholsey, filling in to tell you the latest what the dropout teams uncovered.
Here's episode ten, the therabrose.
If we've learned anything about Theranos during the course of this trial, it's that the inner workings there were never dull.