{"id":299,"date":"2019-10-26T15:16:55","date_gmt":"2019-10-26T22:16:55","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/mattpoland.net\/sherlockpod\/?p=299"},"modified":"2020-10-10T17:20:57","modified_gmt":"2020-10-11T00:20:57","slug":"the-dropout-vasan-jagadeesh-bp2","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/mattpoland.net\/sherlockpod\/2019\/10\/26\/the-dropout-vasan-jagadeesh-bp2\/","title":{"rendered":"The Dropout &#8211; Vasan Jagadeesh BP2"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p>            Welcome back to my blog! To quickly recap, I have been following a podcast named <em>The Dropout <\/em>which stars Elizabeth Holmes, the founder of the company Theranos, who had an idea that would revolutionize the future of healthcare. If you refer to my previous blog post, you can learn more about the initial background that was set about Holmes and her early life. We learned a lot about the motivators for Holmes\u2019 pursuit of founding Theranos. The one drop blood testing patch she had dreamed of was receiving so much positive attention to the point where suspicions began to arise. Nevertheless, Holmes decided to seek funding for the initial stages of prototype development. Episode one left us with some sort of a cliffhanger, \u201cHolmes had something up her sleeve, a white knight\u2026with deep pockets\u201d. <\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp; We find out after a couple minutes of\nanticipation, in episode two, that the \u201cwhite knight with deep pockets\u201d is a\nman named Sunny Balwani. As the episode progresses, we learn more of the personal\nrelationship between Holmes and Sunny and how it had been completely hidden from\nthe rest of the employees at Theranos, ultimately affecting the employees\u2019 trust\nin the two. <\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp; The way that the podcast structure\nwas able to keep the listener on edge to continue listening from episode to episode\nseems a bit plain in my own opinion. The first episode somewhat jumps around a\nlot for nearly 35 minutes before getting to the last 5 minutes of cliffhanger\nthat will lead into the second episode. At the end of episode two, the narrator\nliterally just explains what episode three will be about, without actually\nusing the story of Holmes to keep the listener excited. Like I mentioned in my\nfirst blog post, I think a lot of this can be attributed to the fact that <em>The\nDropout<\/em> doesn\u2019t follow any strict chronological order. Instead, the\nnarrator choses to slowly reveal small details at a time that help the listener\nunderstand why the downfall of Elizabeth Holmes and Theranos was inevitable. By\nrevealing details slowly and discreetly, I think the narrator aims to allow the\nlistener to \u201cactively\u201d listen and try to piece together these details,\nformulating their own ideas about Holmes and Sunny. This seems to be a unique\nway of preventing the listener from simply reading news articles about Theranos\nto find out the whole story. The satisfaction that the listener may feel when predicting\nthe turnout of a certain interaction between Holmes and an investor is enough\nto keep then listener engaged and intrigued about events to come. <\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp; Going forward, I think the podcast\nwould benefit from using Elizabeth Holmes as a direct interviewee to hear her personal\nthoughts and reasonings for her actions. We still are yet to receive this\ncritical perspective, but I think this may be part of the narrator\u2019s plan in\nkeeping the listener wanting more. The narrator paints a mysterious and\ndeceptive picture of Holmes on purpose without letting us listen to Holmes\u2019 own\nwords so that the theme of manipulation and fraud is exemplified throughout the\nepisodes thus far. <\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Word\nCount: 529<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Welcome back to my blog! 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