'You Can See Everything' Review: Nathan Fielder's Doc About Elizabeth Holmes

Post by timcobb » Mon, Sep 07, 2026, 12:42 PM UTC

sschueller wrote: post #12

jiaosdjf wrote: post #7

I watched the entire trailer fully believing that Nathan Fielder had managed to find the most unhinged uncanny look-alike actress to play Elizabeth Holmes. This trailer was so good that I would have been fully prepared to watch a 2 hour dramatised mockumentary about Theranos. Finding out that this was really Elizabeth Holmes was a huge shock

Yet people who met her were stupid enough to think she is some kind of genius and gave her millions of dollars. Sometimes I think if Charles Manson started a startup instead of killing people he would have had millions in investments and be praised as some sort of wunder kind...

Post by timcobb » Mon, Sep 07, 2026, 12:42 PM UTC

jiaosdjf wrote: post #50

sschueller wrote: post #12

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Yet people who met her were stupid enough to think she is some kind of genius and gave her millions of dollars. Sometimes I think if Charles Manson started a startup instead of killing people he would have had millions in investments and be praised as some sort of wunder kind...

All founders and CEOs are like this, to the point that when I meet a person in leadership who clearly isn't a sociopath my default reaction is to assume that they're not successful. The only reason I'm somewhat confident that I am not a sociopath is because I am still frequently presented business ideas that make me think "WTF how did you even think of that and why am I so angry that it's probably going to work"

Post by Eddy_Viscosity2 » Mon, Sep 07, 2026, 12:43 PM UTC

philipallstar wrote: post #45

Eddy_Viscosity2 wrote: post #29

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Scamming as a male can actually improve your reputation. Donald Trump is currently the president of the united states despite years of ripping people off. If Bernie Madoff could run as a republican senator, I'd given him decent odds to win.

> If Bernie Madoff could run as a republican senator, I'd given him decent odds to win. And yet somehow he - a man - is in jail. A jail built by men, condemned by a justice system designed by men to lock bad men up.

Post by gedy » Mon, Sep 07, 2026, 12:47 PM UTC

Eddy_Viscosity2 wrote: post #29

FranzFerdiNaN wrote: post #18

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Plenty of male-led businesses also turned out to be scams, and yet no one goes 'that guy looks sharp, but he is male so seems suspicious'. Which only proofs how deep sexism is rooted.

Scamming as a male can actually improve your reputation. Donald Trump is currently the president of the united states despite years of ripping people off. If Bernie Madoff could run as a republican senator, I'd given him decent odds to win.

Post by silphcore » Mon, Sep 07, 2026, 12:52 PM UTC

Grombobulous wrote: post #47

philipallstar wrote: post #38

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> Which only proofs how deep sexism is rooted. Only if you're determined to look for it. No one promotes companies, or gives special grants, or runs special funding groups, or special networking breakfasts, for men. It's only for women. Women are currently viewed as intrinsically a good thing to run a company, and it's a problem if your company has fewer than 50% women. It's all about identity and not competence. She…

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