Boies Schiller’s Mike Brille: Letter from Michael A. Brille to Mary L. Symons,
Rochelle Gibbons’s estate lawyer, dated August 5, 2015.
In a last-ditch effort to prevent: Letter from David Boies to Gerard Baker, copying
Jason Conti, dated September 8, 2015.
The story was published on: John Carreyrou, “A Prized Startup’s Struggles,” Wall
Street Journal, October 15, 2015.
The editor of Fortune: Fortune CEO Daily newsletter sent by Alan Murray to
readers at 7:18 a.m. EST on October 15, 2015.
Forbes and The New Yorker: Matthew Herper, “Theranos’ Elizabeth Holmes
Needs to Stop Complaining and Answer Questions,” Forbes.com, October 15,
2015; Eric Lach, “The Secrets of a Billionaire’s Blood-Testing Startup,”
NewYorker.com, October 16, 2015.
One of them was former Netscape cofounder: Laura Arrillaga-Andreessen, “Five
Visionary Tech Entrepreneurs Who Are Changing the World,” New York
Times T Magazine, October 12, 2015.
In a press release it posted: Theranos, “Statement from Theranos,” press release,
October 15, 2015, Theranos website.
Dressed in her usual all-black attire: Holmes’s October 15, 2015, interview with Jim
Cramer on CNBC’s Mad Money program can be viewed on YouTube;
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=rGfaJZAdfNE.
We quickly published my follow-up: John Carreyrou, “Hot Startup Theranos Dials
Back Lab Tests at FDA’s Behest,” Wall Street Journal, October 16, 2015.
Theranos had issued a second: Theranos, “Statement from Theranos,” press
release, October 16, 2015, Theranos website.
At his signal: Nick Bilton, “How Elizabeth Holmes’s House of Cards Came
Tumbling Down,” Vanity Fair, September 6, 2016.
There was so much interest: Jonathan Krim’s October 21, 2016, interview of
Holmes at the WSJ D.Live conference can be viewed on WSJ.com.
A few days earlier, Gassée: Jean-Louis Gassée, “Theranos Trouble: A First Person
Account,” Monday Note, October 18, 2015.
Soon after the interview ended: Theranos, “Theranos Facts,” press release, October
21, 2015, Theranos website.
After Holmes’s appearance: Andrew Pollack, “Theranos, Facing Criticism, Says It
Has Changed Board Structure,” New York Times, October 28, 2015.
Sure enough, within days: Letters from Heather King to William Lewis, CEO of
Wall Street Journal parent company Dow Jones, copying Mark Jackson,