Everyone’s watching the Elizabeth Holmes documentary ‘You Can See Everything’
- ID
- 36800
- Status
- summarized
- Published
- 19 Oct 2026, 3:03 AM
- Fetched
- 19 Oct 2026, 3:59 AM
- Provider
- TechCrunch
- Category
- technology
- Original URL
- https://techcrunch.com/2026/10/18/everyones-watching-the-elizabeth-holmes-documentary-you-can-see-everything/
- Source URL
- https://techcrunch.com/feed/
Summary
- Score
- 2.0
- Created
- 19 Oct 2026, 4:00 AM
- Tags
- Audience
- founders
What happened
A24's nearly three-hour Elizabeth Holmes documentary "You Can See Everything," co-directed by Nathan Fielder and Lance Oppenheim, opened to a reported $15 million weekend in just 855 theaters — the second-biggest documentary opening ever — with a 99% score on both Rotten Tomatoes and Metacritic and about 2,000 sellout screenings. The filmmakers had extensive access to Holmes and her family in the month before she began her 11-year sentence. TechCrunch's Amanda Silberling, who saw it Thursday, writes that the deadpan Fielder seems to have met his match in Holmes.
Why it matters
This is entertainment news: nothing in the text changes a build, purchase, or architecture decision for developers or founders. The only concrete business fact it restates is that Theranos raised from prominent Silicon Valley names and Holmes was sentenced to 11 years for defrauding investors — the film itself is not reported here to add new technical or diligence detail. If you want a startup-fraud case study, this article gives you box-office numbers, not new evidence.
Discussion angle
Worth 60 seconds max: is there anything new here for founders, or is this just another retelling — and if the film is built on pre-prison access to Holmes, does access like that add understanding or just spectacle?