SHE was hailed as the next Steve Jobs, and as America’s youngest self-made female billionaire had investors falling over themselves to back her.
Everyone from former US secretary of state Henry Kissinger to media mogul Rupert Murdoch and bosses at US supermarket chain Walmart dug deep into their pockets to be part of a company that seemed so cutting edge and revolutionary.
Elizabeth Holmes was the darling of the tech scene – the young, attractive and beguiling founder of a company that promised to change the world of medicine.
Theranos, her blood-testing firm, soared from ambitious start-up into a $9 million (now R153m) enterprise and Elizabeth was living the high life – until it all came tumbling down. She
