BLOOD on her HANDS
n 2015, Elizabeth Holmes, a then-31-year-old Stanford University dropout, was named by as the richest self-made woman in the US, with a net worth of US$4.5 billion (AU$6.3 billion). Her empire was Theranos – a company she founded in 2003 to develop a revolutionary medical device that could perform a whole spectrum of tests with just a pinprick’s worth of blood. Only it didn’t work, its failings exposed in a series of damning articles by. Now, Holmes is up on fraud charges and facing time in prison.
