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Podcast: Battling with Business
Episode: Episode 155 - Influencers #27 - Elizabeth Holmes - How Selling the Dream Became Selling Bullshit
Description: In this week’s episode we look at one of the most uncomfortable leadership stories of the modern business era. Elizabeth Holmes and Theranos force us to confront how easily confidence, narrative, and status can be mistaken for competence and truth. We explore how a young, driven, and highly credible founder built a nine billion dollar company, attracted world class investors, and became a symbol of innovation, while quietly crossing the line from ambition into deception.
We talk about the cult of leadership, the danger of survivor bias, and why we are so keen to believe in he...