With more than a thousand emails, slides, texts, and documents revealed in the United States v. Elizabeth Holmes trial, Extend engineer Bo Lau created a website that simulates what it might have been like to be the CEO of Theranos before it all fell apart.
(Every day I thank the American legal system for making the discovery process public.)
The environment Lau created is ambitious and detailed, taking you 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 runs OS X El Capitan.
You can click through the environment, allowing you to browse documents made public during the trial on the screens of Holmes’ iPhone and laptop. You can even operate the Theranos Edison machine, the company’s ill-fated device that was supposed to be capable of extracting vast amounts of health data from a single drop of blood.
The project appears to have been designed mostly for laughs, but it’s actually an interesting way to look through the documents from one of the most infamous court cases in tech history – it’s much easier to navigate than searching through thousands of PDFs on court websites.
There is, however, another program. Lau is promoting a watch party his company is hosting for Nathan Fielder’s upcoming Elizabeth Holmes documentary, “You Can See Everything.”
And of course, she promotes the company itself. So what exactly does Extend do? Apparently, it can “analyze, extract and split your most difficult documents with unrivaled precision.” (I’m not really sure what that means, but if it makes something like this Holmes office simulator possible, then I guess it means I’m bullish on B2B SaaS.)
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