Elizabeth Holmes, the infamous founder of Theranos who is currently serving out a more than 11-year prison sentence in Texas, re-entered the zeitgeist this past fall—in September to be exact. One of her first courses of business was to retweet a Fox News interview with JD Vance.
Or, at least, someone retweeted it.
Over the next couple of days, Holmes’ account on X began to muse over what Holmes would tell the 19-year-old version of herself who was about to drop out of Stanford and build Theranos (“lean into fear;” “don’t be discouraged;” etc.). And later in September, after the conservative activist Charlie Kirk was murdered in Utah, the account began posting a stream of writings about the importance of free speech and support for Kirk’s widow, Erika. “Everyone might be posting today about Charlie. But I’ll do the same 3-5 years from now,” Holmes’s account wrote.
