You Can See Everything, a three-hour documentary about Theranos founder Elizabeth Holmes, opens in theaters this week. You’d think Holmes would be the main point of focus, but people are coming out of it wondering about her husband, too.
Holmes is married to a man named Billy Evans, who is not a household name like his wife. If you saw You Can See Everything or want to see it, and you need to know more about Evans, here is a basic rundown of how he got to this point.
Who is Billy Evans? His life before Elizabeth Holmes
Prior to meeting Holmes, Evans came from a San Diego family known for a line of family-owned hotels in the area. William and Anne Evans, Billy’s grandparents, founded the company in 1953, according to the Evans Hotels website. According to Business Insider, Evans Hotels operates the Bahia Resort Hotel, the Catamaran Resort Hotel and Spa, and The Lodge at Torrey Pines.
Evans, however, did not work in the hotel business prior to meeting Holmes. According to his LinkedIn profile, he graduated from MIT in 2015 with a Bachelor of Science in Economics. During his time at MIT, he took student gigs at financial companies around California and was also a student brand manager at Red Bull.
Eventually, Evans took a job at LinkedIn in 2017 as a “strategy and leadership program analyst.” Later in 2017, he joined Luminar Technologies, an autonomous-car tech firm.
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How Billy Evans met Elizabeth Holmes
It’s around this time that Evans met Holmes at a house party in San Francisco in 2017, per a joint interview the two gave to the New York Times in 2023. The timing of this is important, as Holmes was not indicted for fraud until early 2018. She had been a source of controversy prior to meeting Evans, but had not yet been charged by the SEC.
As stated in that interview, Holmes and Evans talked for three consecutive hours at the party. According to Evans, it “isn’t an overstatement” to say they fell in love right away. Per Holmes, her public controversy allowed Evans to “get to know [Holmes] in a totally different way,” leading them to connect in “a really deep way.”
Their relationship became a public matter after they were spotted together at Burning Man. The two of them got engaged in August 2018. A few months later, at the start of 2019, Evans left his job at Luminar, per the New York Post. The Post’s report included the nugget that his co-workers at the firm thought he left because of the public scrutiny around his relationship with Holmes.
Where Billy Evans and Elizabeth Holmes stand today
Evans would become one of several people who submitted letters of support during her 2022 trial in an effort to reduce her sentence. In his statement, he wrote he fell in love after speaking with her at the party before he really realized who she was. He was reluctant to start a romantic relationship for about six months because of the controversy, but it “was not long before the friendship turned into something more,” per his letter.
The couple has two children: a son named William, born in 2021, and a daughter named Invicta, born in 2023. The family relocated to Texas prior to her imprisonment, close to the minimum-security facility where Holmes now resides. You Can See Everything covers the move and the family’s last days together before Holmes had to leave. Family visits between Holmes and her husband and children are allowed, but conjugal visits between husband and wife are not, per People.
Evans insists that Holmes is his “best friend and soulmate,” according to People. Holmes continues to maintain her innocence.
