Engineer builds interactive website simulating former Theranos chief executive desk

Extend engineer Bo Lau has created an interactive website that simulates sitting at the desk of former Theranos chief executive Elizabeth Holmes, TechCrunch AI reported. The interactive project uses documents made public during the United States v. Elizabeth Holmes federal trial. [1][2]

According to TechCrunch AI, the website includes more than a thousand emails, slides, text messages, and official trial documents. The portal lets users view materials from inside the blood testing startup prior to the collapse of the company. [1]

Holmes founded the health technology company Theranos in 2003, which claimed to revolutionize blood testing by using small blood volumes from fingerpricks. Forbes named her the youngest self-made female billionaire in the United States in 2015 based on a 9 billion dollar valuation. The publication later revised her net worth to zero after fraud allegations surfaced, and Holmes was subsequently convicted of fraud. [3]

Holmes was born in Washington, D.C. to Christian Holmes IV, a former Enron vice president and government official, and Noel Anne Holmes, a former Capitol Hill defense aide. The trial documents underlying the new website were made accessible through the public discovery process of the American legal system, TechCrunch AI reported. [1][5]