Engineer Recalls Spotting Elizabeth Holmes's Fake Persona at 2015 IIT Summit Keynote
vishalmisra · x · 2026-10-19
Author vishalmisra recalls watching Elizabeth Holmes's keynote at the IIT Global Summit in Santa Clara in July 2015: her voice and persona seemed obviously fake, and having never heard of Theranos, he looked it up and immediately smelled a rat. When Carreyrou's exposé dropped that October, he sent his friend the biggest "SEE!!!" ever.
He notes IIT GLC has since removed the keynote from YouTube ("with good reasons"), though some sit-down interviews from the summit remain available.
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