Elizabeth Holmes was "the world's youngest self-made female billionaire" with her company Theranos, which promised to detect conditions such as cancer and diabetes needing only a few drops of blood. In 2014 her company was valued at US $9bn, but by 2018 Theranos had collapsed. In 2022 convicted by a jury in California on four counts of fraud and was sentenced to 11 years and three months in prison.

Now in May 2023 Holmes is finally going to prison, we speak with retired biotech executive Anne Kopf-Sill who knew Holmes, about why it took so long?

 

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