Tyler Shultz

Tyler Shultz is an American researcher, founder, and whistleblower. In 2017, he co-founded Flux Biosciences, a biotechnology company which develops healthcare diagnostics that can be used in households, and in 2022, he founded The Healthyr Company, also a health insights service. Shultz was among the whistleblowers who exposed the fraudulent practices of Theranos, a company founded by Elizabeth Holmes; he had been hired as an intern in 2013 and proceeded to confidentially inform reportage on and subsequent investigations into Theranos after resigning in 2014. Specifically, he was a crucial source for The Wall Street Journal where John Carreyrou reported on Theranos for several years. In 2017, Shultz was named to Forbes' 30 Under 30 for Healthcare. Forbes stated that Shultz, aged 26 at the time, "shaped the year's biggest healthcare story" as a Theranos whistleblower while also crediting his work at Stanford University on analyzing saliva samples for marijuana. The same year, he received the James Madison Freedom of Information Award. Since 2019, Shultz has advised Ethics in Entrepreneurship, a nonprofit founded by Erika Cheung, whom Shultz had met at Theranos. The nonprofit is dedicated toward implementing ethical guidelines in business.