"The Dropout" Cast Side By Side With Their Real-Life Counterparts

Fuisz is a physician, former CIA agent, and inventor. Fuisz was friends and a longtime neighbor of the Holmes family and knew Holmes as she was growing up. By the time Theranos started to grow into a giant in 2011, Fuisz was sued by Theranos for allegedly stealing the technology behind its blood testing to create a competitor. He settled with Holmes in 2014.