What Is The Dropout?
The American drama series “The DropOut”, created by Elizabeth Meriwether, is based on a podcast hosted by Rebecca Jarvis and produced by ABC News. This series follows the story of young woman Elizabeth Holmes (Amanda Seyfried), a Stanford dropout who has developed her own company, Theranos, to make blood testing procedures less complex and less expensive.
Who is Edmond Ku?
Edmond Ku is one of the most important employees in the Theranos company; after Elizabeth creates her own company, she teams up with engineers named Rakesh Madhava and Edmond Ku to develop a special device to simplify blood testing procedures, a device that can test blood with only one drop of blood.
She hired Edmond and Madhava; both of them are engineers and work on device development.
Conclusion
The role of Edmond Ku is portrayed by actor James Hiroyuki Liao, who is famous for his roles in Cowboy Bebop and Manifest. In contrast, the role of Madhava is played by Utkarsh Ambudkar.
In The Dropout series, Edmond Ku is based on real Ku; Edmond is an engineer in silicon valley and renowned for his problem-solving skills. He was born in Hong Kong and later on moved to the USA. Holmes hired Ku in 2006 as the head of the Engineering Division; he worked at Theranos until 2008; he was given the task at Theranos to come up with the first Theranos Prototype, known as Theranos 1.0.
