What happened to Theranos whistleblowers Erika Cheung and Tyler Shultz?
BOTH Erika Cheung and Tyler Shultz worked at Elizabeth Holmes' company Theranos.
Theranos was founded in 2003 by Elizabeth Holmes in the famous Silicon Valley in California.
What happened to Theranos whistleblowers Erika Cheung and Tyler Shultz?
As seen in The Dropout, a Hulu series about Holmes and her company Theranos, both Cheung and Shultz were some of the whistleblowers at the company.
The two corroborated their stories and told their experiences to the in 2015 to reveal the truth behind Theranos.
Cheung quit Theranos at the time and since about the experience.
Her states she is the Co-Founder of Ethics in Entrepreneurship.
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In September 2014 she went on to work as a Research and Development Associate for Antibody Solutions.
As for Shultz, who was the grandson of former U.S. Secretary of State and Theranos board member George Shultz, he went on to start his own company.
According to his , he is the CEO and Co-founder of Flux Biosciences.
Following his time at Theranos, he to work in its Wang Lab studying giant magnetoresistive (GMR) technology.
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Tyler worked as a research engineer at Theranos from September 2013 to April 2014.
What did Erika Cheung and Tyler Shultz say about Theranos?
In Erika's TED Talk she revealed that Theranos was altering data within their labs.
Tyler also told that "There is nothing that the Edison could do that I couldn't do with a pipette in my own hand," he said.
"It was clear that there was an open secret within Theranos that this technology simply didn't exist," Tyler said.
Erika said that working at the company and being told to alter data points in the lab made her "uncomfortable."
"It was starting to get very uncomfortable and very stressful for me to work at the company," Erika said via .
"I was attempting to tell as many people as I could but it was just not getting through to people."
In 2017 listed Tyler on their 30 Under 30 list.
What happened to Elizabeth Holmes?
On January 3, 2022, Holmes was found guilty on four counts and not guilty on four counts.
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The jury remained deadlocked on three more charges.
She was found guilty of conspiracy to defraud investors; wire fraud of Brian Grossman worth $38million; wire fraud of the DeVos family worth $100million; wire fraud of former Cravath attorney Dan Mosley worth $6million; and wire fraud of the of $99million from Lakeshore Capital Management LP.
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The founder however was found not guilty of one count of conspiracy to commit wire fraud against Theranos paying patients, and three counts of wire fraud against Theranos paying patients.
Holmes will be sentenced on September 26, 2022, following her conviction on January 3, 2022.
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