16 actors who transformed into real-life tech company CEOs and founders0

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• September 8, 2026

Seyfried played Holmes all the way from her time at Stanford in 2003 (where she did the titular dropping out) through to the catastrophic collapse of her company Theranos in 2015, spurred by an exposé published in The Wall Street Journal, in the 2022 Hulu limited series “The Dropout.” Theranos purported to manufacture a device