Theranos whistleblower Tyler Schultz claims the new Elizabeth Holmes documentary is not entirely accurate.
The new film, You Can See Everything, produced by A24, follows Holmes and her partner, Billy Evans, in their California home before she begins her prison sentence. The movie is directed by Lance Oppenheim and Nathan Fielder, who were invited to stay with Holmes and her family throughout filming. Fielder also appears on camera in the documentary.
In one scene, Fielder is shown what Holmes claims is the “Theranos device,” a machine that would be able to run diagnostic tests using a pinprick of blood. However, in an interview with CBS News, Schultz says that’s not the device he recalls.
“She completely misled him down this completely different rabbit hole,” he said, claiming that the version seen in the film is different from the original Theranos device. “The device we actually used, was actually built, was far more rudimentary, wildly inaccurate, was not a standalone platform, could only test for one thing at a time.”
Schultz took to social media to further emphasize his experience with the device. “Not the device I worked with 12 hours a day, not the device we hid from regulators, not the device we used to knowingly give patients false medical information. The device she showed him was not the reason she went to prison,” he wrote in a post on X.
Schultz started at Theranos in 2013, after his grandfather, former Secretary of State George Schultz, joined the company’s board of directors.
Schultz ultimately became a key whistleblower after discovering inaccuracies in test results.