Who is Billy in the Elizabeth Holmes documentary, according to My First Million?

Billy is Elizabeth Holmes's partner and the father of her two young children. Shaan Puri says they are engaged rather than married because of the hundreds of millions of dollars she owes in restitution. The hosts see him as the controlling figure in the film: it was his idea to make the documentary, he asked for a share of its upside, and he tweets in her name while she is in prison.

• Shaan Puri reads Billy as a parallel to Sunny Balwani, the older partner Holmes dated at Theranos.
• The egg-whisking scene, where Billy takes the bowl from Holmes mid-conversation, is singled out as showing the relationship without explaining it.
• Billy's family started a group of hotels, and the hosts say he later dropped the request for points on the film.

Source: our own transcription of the episode. The full conversation is on My First Million (2026-10-20). Read the whole episode summary →

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