Preview: Theranos’s Elizabeth Holmes was found guilty. Now her COO is on trial.

Apr 2, 2022 3 min

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When it came to light that the blood-testing technology behind the biotech startup Theranos didn’t work, the enigmatic founder, Elizabeth Holmes, became the subject of intense scrutiny. While Holmes has been in the spotlight, there’s another person at the center of this story: Ramesh “Sunny” Balwani. Balwani and Holmes dated in secret for more than a decade, and he eventually became COO of Theranos. Balwani’s trial is now underway. Apple News In Conversation’s Shumita Basu spoke with Rebecca Jarvis, host of ABC Audio’s podcast on Theranos, <a href="https://podcasts.apple.com/us/podcast/the-dropout/id1449500734">The Dropout</a>, about what to expect in this latest court case. This is a preview of that conversation. Listen to the full episode on <a href="https://podcasts.apple.com/us/podcast/theranoss-elizabeth-holmes-was-found-guilty-now-her/id1577591053?i=1000555978923">Apple News In Conversation</a>.

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