Hulu rivet series, The Dropoutfollows the rise and fall of Therano’s CEO Elizabeth Holmes (Amanda Seyfried) and explores the disgraced entrepreneur’s relationship with her neighbor Richard Fuisz (William H. Macy). Fuisz has a lot to say about the Holmes family in real life. Here’s a breakdown of some of the allegations he’s made over the years.
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Richard Fuisz says Elizabeth Holmes’ family was jealous of his
Fuisz is a former CIA agent, Harvard-trained psychiatrist, and inventor who has known the Holmes family since Elizabeth was a child. But his relationship with his family has been more than strained in recent years.
After intentionally filing a patent for a similar machine Theranos Device turned on, Fuisz was sued by the company. They reached an agreement in 2014 with no financial benefits for either side.
Fuisz was also responsible for introducing writer John Carreyrou to the former medical director of Theranos. Their meeting prompted Carreyrou to write Bad Blood: Secrets and Lies in a Silicon Valley Startupthe book that exposed Theranos’ fraud and ultimately led to Elizabeth’s arrest.
But Fuisz claims the Holmes family had problems long before Elizabeth Holmes founded Theranos. In a 2014 interview with forbessaid the former family friend Holmes’ parents and siblings were jealous of his family’s achievements.
“The Holmes family — parents were Christian and Noel — were our neighbors in Virginia,” Fuisz said. “They were very political and sought to use their Washington connections to raise money. Our children grew up with their children. They were jealous of our family. I was a doctor who had many patents and made money from it and knew Arabic.”
Richard Fuisz says Elizabeth Holmes’ mother pushed her to be like him
As a doctor, inventor and CIA agent, Fuisz had a busy job. And he suggested that Holmes’ mother was pushing her to become more like him.
“Noel programmed Elizabeth to be like me, to invent and learn a language,” Fuisz Forbes said. “I am a psychiatrist and GP and would advise a father and mother not to treat their child this way – in the pictures I have with our family she is withdrawn. She’s always pulled to the side and wasn’t naturally emotional as a child.”
Elizabeth Holmes wasn’t a great student, suggests Richard Fuisz
Fuisz claimed that Holmes was not always an honor student. And he said her parents used a “back door” to get her to Stanford.
“She was a fair student with bad grades,” he said in his chat with Forbes. “Her parents heard through their channels that if she did a summer program there and learned a language, she could improve her chances. While she was in high school, they put her in a summer program at Stanford to learn Mandarin.”
Holmes eventually came to Stanford. But she dropped out to start her business. Fuisz noted that after she left college, her father introduced her to large venture capitalists who then invested in her company.
Richard Fuisz says he let Elizabeth Holmes’ family live in his home rent-free
Holmes’ father was a vice president of Enron. But when the company went under, Fuisz claimed her father came and asked him for help.
“When he came back to Washington after Enron failed, he was broke and came to us crying,” he told Forbes. #He had no money. I lived in a new house a few blocks away and told him he could live rent free in our first house in McLean, Virginia.”
He suggests that Elizabeth Holmes’ name was put on patents of inventions that were not hers
Holmes made Ian Gibbons Theranos chief scientist in 2005. But according to Fuisz later Sunny Balwani joined the company, she hired patent authors to put her name on Gibbons’ work.
“They just put their name on the patents — including the ones that overlapped with what Gibbons invented at a previous company,” he told Forbes. “Theranos did not cite the Gibbons patents as prior art, as it should have.”
Gibbons reportedly feared being fired by Holmes. He died in 2013, a week after attempting suicide.
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