This is Optimizer, a weekly newsletter sent from Verge senior reviewer Victoria Song that dissects and discusses the latest gizmos and potions that swear they’re going to change your life. Opt in for Optimizer here. From afar, it’s easy to look back at the Theranos debacle and scream at Nathan Fielder that, obviously, Elizabeth Holmes
Nathan Fielder’s nearly three-hour documentary about disgraced entrepreneur Elizabeth Holmes is running up numbers at the box office. The film, “You Can See Everything,” grossed $15 million in the US and Canada during its opening weekend, according to A24, the film’s distributor. That’s the best opening weekend for a documentary this year. “Melania” had the
“I do everything I say—word for word. I am never a minute late. I show no excitement,” wrote Elizabeth Holmes. The line is part of an extensive handwritten note the former Theranos CEO wrote to herself when she was leading the company. Holmes took the stand in 2021 during the criminal fraud trial against her, and testified in
