Having the ability of persuasion and adopting the dress code of Steve Jobs, she managed to charm investors and deceive them
Elizabeth Holmes she is pregnant and will welcome her second child behind bars. The 38-year-old founder of Theranos is expecting her second baby, court documents reveal, according to the New York Times. Elizabeth Holmes was sentenced to more than 11 years in prison for defrauding investors.
Holmes was its founder Theranosof the company that claimed to have invented a new innovative medical device that could perform dozens of complex blood tests with just a few drops of blood.
It quickly attracted the attention of Silicon Valley, Wall Street, the medical community and the media. They thought it brought something revolutionary. It turned out that she had not only deceived investors, but also patients: The test results with her medical device were completely unreliable.
Elizabeth Holmes studied chemical engineering at Stanford. And despite excelling in her first year and winning a $3,000 scholarship, she never finished her studies. She dropped out of Stanford to found her own start up.
Despite the initial difficulties he encountered, having the ability of persuasion and adopting the dress code of Steve Jobs – he often appeared in a black turtleneck – he managed to charm investors. By the end of 2010 it had already raised $92 million in funding and was a household name in Silicon Valley circles.
Until 2014 she was on the covers of Fortune, Forbes, Times and on the list of investors and members of the Board of Directors. of Theranos one met names like Henry Kissinger, Rupert Murdoch, Carlos Slim, Larry Ellison.
The huge bubble it had created burst with a series of “Wall Street Journal” reports in 2015 and while Theranos was already valued at $9 billion. The US newspaper revealed that Theranos’ “miracle” device was actually a scam.
According to court documents obtained by The Times, she became pregnant after her conviction in January. Holmes, who was the subject of an HBO documentary as well as a Hulu miniseries starring Amanda Seyfried, welcomed her first child in August 2021, before her criminal trial began.
That pregnancy was first revealed in court in March 2021, when her defense attorney and prosecutors filed court papers asking a judge to move up the start date of her trial since the birth was in July.
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