“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.

Aly McDevitt is Data & Research Journalist at Compliance Week. She has a background in education and college consulting. Prior to teaching, she was an editor/author at Thomson Reuters, where she reported...