Article 5W94H Bossing it: why the women of big tech are taking over the small screen

Bossing it: why the women of big tech are taking over the small screen

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Laura Martin
from Technology | The Guardian on (#5W94H)

The Tech Bro has become Hollywood's go-to villain. Now, TV is finally grappling with Silicon Valley's complex female entrepreneurs

In the jaw-dropping saga of disgraced health-tech entrepreneur Elizabeth Holmes, there was one aspect that attracted most of the public's attention: her voice.

Despite lying about her revolutionary" pin-prick blood test technology that failed to work, then duping her patients with false diagnoses (she was convicted of four counts of defrauding investors earlier this year) it was her appearance - the Steve Jobs-esque black turtleneck jumpers and signature red lipstick - and her deep baritone, masculine-affected voice that people really zoned in on. So when The Dropout, the TV adaptation of Holmes's life story - based on Rebecca Jarvis's 2019 podcast of the same name - was first announced with Amanda Seyfried in the lead role, the internet was abuzz. Would Seyfried do the voice"?

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