#212 The Tale of a Girl Boss: The Rise & Fall of Theranos Founder Elizabeth Holmes [Part 1]

An In-Depth Look At the Meteoric Rise And Spectacular Fall Of Elizabeth Holmes And Her Now Defunct Biotech Company Theranos [Part 1]

This is Part 1 of a 13 Part Series in which Killafornia Dreaming will be discussing the rise and fall of Elizabeth's Holmes of the now defunct biotech company Theranos.  For more than a dozen years, Theranos worked tirelessly in an effort to develop a revolutionary new blood testing device that only needed a single drop of blood to run hundreds of different diagnostics that was compact enough that patients would be able to have a device in their very own home.  Elizabeth was able to bring in millions upon millions of dollars from investors, not only getting Theranos to reach a peak valuation of $9 billion dollars, but also making herself the youngest  self-made female billionaire in the world at the time.  But despite all the hype and high powered investors and board members, the company turned out to be a house of cards that eventually would come tumbling down thanks to one pesky Wall Street Journal Investigative Reporter who spectacularly blew the roof off Theranos.

SOURCES:

Bad Blood by John Carreyrou

https://www.britannica.com/biography/Elizabeth-Holmes

https://www.protocol.com/elizabeth-holmes-sunny-balwani-relationship

https://www.justice.gov/usao-ndca/us-v-elizabeth-holmes-et-al

https://www.forbes.com/profile/elizabeth-holmes/?sh=537e3b9247a7

https://www.vanityfair.com/news/2016/09/elizabeth-holmes-theranos-exclusive

https://www.elle.com/culture/movies-tv/a39281820/where-is-elizabeth-holmes-now/

https://www.entrepreneur.com/business-news/the-career-rise-and-fall-of-theranos-founder-elizabeth/346212

https://www.newyorker.com/magazine/2014/12/15/blood-simpler

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