“You’ll find an investor,” soothes Ian Gibbons, portrayed by Stephen Fry in Hulu’s miniseries “The Dropout.” The biochemist is speaking to 22-year-old Elizabeth Holmes (Amanda Seyfried) in the early days of Theranos, before the blood testing company’s meteoric rise and fall.
The year is 2006. Holmes is the company’s founder and chief executive. Gibbons is her chief scientist developing the biotechnology.
