I went to see why Silicon Valley can't stop laughing at Elizabeth Holmes

Extend booked out a theater at AMC Lincoln Square.

Henry Chandonnet/Business Insider Tech companies and venture capital firms are hosting private screenings of the Elizabeth Holmes doc.

I went to one hosted by the AI startup Extend.

Attendees I talked to said they looked at Holmes more as a joke than a product of their industry.

Elizabeth Holmes is a black mark on Silicon Valley's reputation.

And yet its residents are lining up for the documentary about her.

Tech companies across the US are hosting screenings of " You Can See Everything ," the documentary from Nathan Fielder and Lance Oppenheim about Holmes and her fiancé, Billy Evans.

Venture capital funds are bringing their founders to the movie.

There are Luma events upon Luma events .

The irony, of course, is that Holmes makes tech look bad.

She sold big dreams with her medical testing company, Theranos, which eventually came crashing down.

Holmes was convicted of defrauding investors of hundreds of millions of dollars. (She has long said that she is innocent.) Holmes is the exemplar of Silicon Valley's hucksterism.

She's who much of America points to when they call founders liars or scammers.

So, what's with all the tech love? I went to a Thursday screening of the documentary hosted by Extend, an AI documentation startup, to find out.