A teenage girl, awkward in her track uniform and wearing a large pair of glasses, runs with great effort. Only her father cheers for her from the stands. She is the last to finish the race, and all the other runners look at her with a combination of bewilderment and disgust. Her great effort, heroic to her father, is merely holding them up. Hulu’s limited series, The Dropout, opens with a montage centered around this scene. In it, young Elizabeth Holmes symbolizes everything that Americans love.
