Updated October 4, 2026
You Can See Everything: Elizabeth Holmes e o contexto
The documentary follows Elizabeth Holmes around the period before her imprisonment and then expands into a longer filmmaking process.
To understand You Can See Everything, you need the backstory: who Elizabeth Holmes is, what Theranos was, and why her name still sparks arguments.
Theranos: the rise
Holmes founded Theranos in 2003 after dropping out of Stanford, promising a revolution in blood testing: hundreds of tests from a single finger prick of blood, faster and cheaper than traditional labs. At its peak, the company was valued at around $9 billion, and Holmes — then in her early thirties — was celebrated as the youngest self-made female billionaire in the world. She cultivated a distinctive image: black turtlenecks, a deepened voice, and constant comparisons to Steve Jobs.
The fall
Beginning in 2015, investigative reporting — most notably by the Wall Street Journal's John Carreyrou — revealed that Theranos's technology did not work as claimed. The company was secretly running most tests on modified commercial machines, and its own devices produced unreliable results. What followed: regulatory sanctions, lawsuits, the company's dissolution in 2018, and criminal charges against Holmes and her former partner and COO, Ramesh "Sunny" Balwani.
The conviction
In 2022, Holmes was convicted of defrauding investors and sentenced to more than 11 years in federal prison. She reported to FPC Bryan, a federal prison camp in Texas, in May 2023. Balwani was separately convicted and sentenced. The case became the defining startup-fraud story of its era — the subject of the book Bad Blood, the HBO documentary The Inventor, and the Hulu series The Dropout starring Amanda Seyfried.
Why this documentary is different
Every previous retelling was made from the outside, after the fact. You Can See Everything is the first major account built from the inside: Holmes herself invited the cameras in, 34 days before prison, with no apparent restrictions. Whether that produces genuine insight or an elaborate performance is the question the film reportedly wrestles with — and it is why the trailer's central exchange ("You really feel you did nothing wrong?" / "I did not.") hit so hard.
Keep perspective
Holmes's crimes had real victims — patients who received unreliable test results, investors and employees who lost money and years. A fascinating documentary does not change that. Watch the film for what it reveals about deception, image, and accountability, not as a redemption arc.