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For the World Traveler
A Cultural Compass
For the World Traveler

The Dropout

On her 2019 podcast The Dropout, Rebecca Jarvis of ABC News told the story of how Elizabeth Holmes went from the C.E.O. of the blood-test start-up Theranos, which had positioned her to be “the next Steve Jobs” and promised to fund her private-jet habit, to the subject of a criminal investigation. Now that the pandemic-delayed trial is finally in court, The Dropout is back for Season Two. Jarvis covers Holmes’s trial in real time—from the jury selection to how her pre-trial escapades (getting married, having a baby, attending Burning Man) could figure into the defense. — J.D.

Elizabeth Holmes at the Theranos facility in 2015. Photo by Carlos Chavarria. Courtesy of The New York Times.