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Pretend you’re sitting at Elizabeth Holmes’ desk on this weirdly detailed website
TechCrunchThursday, October 8, 2026 at 9:00 PM
RedScroll Brief
With over a thousand emails, slides, texts, and documents from the United States v. Elizabeth Holmes trial, Extend engineer Bo Lau created a website that simulates what it might have been like to rifle through the Theranos founder's desk.
RedScroll Signal
- Impact
- High
- Category
- Technology
- Regions
- United States
- Market relevance
- Moderate
- Why it matters
- Technology shifts change how people work, communicate, and build — often faster than policy can follow. With over a thousand emails, slides, texts, and documents from the United States v. Elizabeth Holmes trial, Extend engineer Bo Lau created a website that simulates what it might have been like to rifle through the Theranos founder's desk. Secondary effects may show up in markets and supply chains linked to Pretend and Elizabeth Holmes.
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What happened
With over a thousand emails, slides, texts, and documents from the United States v. Elizabeth Holmes trial, Extend engineer Bo Lau created a website that simulates what it might have been like to rifle through the Theranos founder's desk.
Why it matters
Technology shifts change how people work, communicate, and build — often faster than policy can follow.
Background
TechCrunch reported on this under technology. RedScroll surfaces the signal with an extractive brief — not a reprint of the original article. Read the source for full reporting.
Timeline
TechCrunch published: Pretend you’re sitting at Elizabeth Holmes’ desk on this weirdly detailed website
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Economic impact
Secondary effects may show up in markets and supply chains linked to Pretend and Elizabeth Holmes.
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