{"id":267648,"date":"2026-10-08T21:00:00","date_gmt":"2026-10-08T21:00:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/entertainment.runfyers.com\/index.php\/2026\/10\/08\/pretend-youre-sitting-at-elizabeth-holmes-desk-on-this-weirdly-detailed-website-techcrunch\/"},"modified":"2026-10-08T21:00:00","modified_gmt":"2026-10-08T21:00:00","slug":"pretend-youre-sitting-at-elizabeth-holmes-desk-on-this-weirdly-detailed-website-techcrunch","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/entertainment.runfyers.com\/index.php\/2026\/10\/08\/pretend-youre-sitting-at-elizabeth-holmes-desk-on-this-weirdly-detailed-website-techcrunch\/","title":{"rendered":"Pretend you’re sitting at Elizabeth Holmes’ desk on this weirdly detailed website | TechCrunch"},"content":{"rendered":"


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With over a thousand emails, slides, texts, and documents unveiled during the United States v. Elizabeth Holmes<\/a> trial, Extend<\/a> engineer Bo Lau created a website<\/a> that simulates what it might have been like to be the chief executive of Theranos before everything came crashing down.<\/p>\n

(Every day, I am grateful to the American legal system for making the discovery process public.)<\/p>\n

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i built a website where you can sit at elizabeth holmes\u2019 desk<\/p>\n

open her macbook, scroll her iphone, run the theranos edison machine<\/p>\n

her texts, emails, slides, documents, and theranos machine records are real, sourced from exhibits in the united states v. holmes criminal trial pic.twitter.com\/5At9T5m3UV<\/a><\/p>\n

\u2014 bo lau (@bolau_) October 8, 2026<\/a><\/p><\/blockquote>\n<\/div>\n<\/figure>\n

The environment that Lau created is ambitiously detailed, taking you right back to 2016, a time when iPhones had home buttons, and you had to slide your finger across the screen to unlock it. Even the MacBook Air is running OS X El Capitan. <\/p>\n

You can click around the environment, which lets you look through the documents made public from the court case on Holmes\u2019 iPhone and laptop screens. You can even run the Theranos Edison machine, the company\u2019s ill-fated device that was supposed to be able to extract large amounts of health data from one drop of blood.<\/p>\n

The project seems like it was mostly made for laughs, but it\u2019s actually an interesting way to peruse the documents from one of the most infamous court cases in tech history \u2014 it\u2019s a lot easier to navigate this than to source thousands of PDFs from court websites.<\/p>\n

There\u2019s another agenda, though. Lau is promoting a watch party that her company is throwing for Nathan Fielder\u2019s upcoming documentary about Elizabeth Holmes, \u201cYou Can See Everything<\/a>.\u201d <\/p>\n

Also, of course, she\u2019s promoting the company itself. So, what exactly does Extend do? Apparently, it can \u201cparse, extract, and split your hardest documents with unmatched accuracy.\u201d (I\u2019m not really sure what that means, but if it makes something like this Holmes desk simulator possible, then I guess that means I\u2019m bullish on B2B SaaS.)<\/p>\n<\/div>\n

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