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You can now sit at Elizabeth Holmes’s desk

The tech world relishes a good founder story. These figures are often young college dropouts with minimalist wardrobes, obsessive behaviors, and eccentric (and often flat out bizarre) tendencies—perfect objects of fascination.

But few sagas have captivated audiences quite as intensely as that of Theranos founder Elizabeth Holmes. The wide-eyed CEO promised a world of needleless blood tests, yet delivered little more than a persona consisting of Steve Jobs-inspired outfits and an unnaturally deep voice.

She is now back in the spotlight. A highly anticipated Nathan Fielder documentary revisiting Holmes’s case hits theaters on Oct. 16, teasing an uncensored look at her inner world. Just ahead of the film’s release, a new website is aspiring to do the same, giving users a glimpse at the very space where the fraud happened: Holmes’s desk.

Titled Theranos.World, the website transports users into Holmes’s glass-enclosed office within the Theranos headquarters. It simulates a view from behind her modern white desk, complete with motivational corporate posters like “a healthier world is within reach” and Theranos’s circular logo adorning the walls.

The project’s essence is similar to Jmail, which made thousands of Epstein emails available to read in a more user-friendly format. Theranos.World offers some of the same. But for the site’s designer, the software engineer Bo Lau, building an interactive platform is more about the love of the game: showcasing how technologies like AI can help anyone create highly detailed interactive worlds that would’ve taken months or years to build by hand.

The desk is crammed with objects from Holmes’s tenure as a founder.


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