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My First Million · Startups & Venture · October 2026
Shaan Puri on the documentary You Can See Everything, about Elizabeth Holmes. He says its reenactments and long uncomfortable scenes leave the viewer less sure what Holmes believed, not more.
…like, why, do you get why that's funny? And she, what she said, I thought was possible. But when he goes, what's the guy's name on first? And she goes, I don't know. And she's like, who? His name is who. And he's like, she's like, I didn't get that. And I'm like, what? That part broke my brain.
Was she just like a smart, dumb person?
…like just introduce, plant these seeds of doubt. That the movie was genius because you go into the documentary expecting it to clarify and tell you what to think. And instead, it just weaves all these paths that you can go down and show you how little you know rather than knowing more coming out, which is amazing. It's like, I mean, that's the irony of the thing called You Could See Everything. It's like there's a second sentence on top of that. It's you can see everything and still not know. And it's like, that's, that's the mind of the whole movie is that seeing everything won't tell you what you think you, what you think you'll get out of seeing everything. So I thought that was great. I thought watching the dropout was just, again, amazing the way they did it. The way he's got the small laptop on a bed together with them. And she's having that reaction and he's just letting it…
who's in the shower.
And then Billy's in the shower, and it just shows it. It just zooms up from there, and you see it's Billy, and you're like, and it's just so crazy. And it's like, that's the first time you start to realize, like, oh, Billy himself might be a bit of a schlong himself. And then, and then you're like…
All right, I'm sold. I'll go see it. What's it out of 10? Wrap up there.