Elizabeth Holmes Theranos

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Elizabeth Anne Holmes is an American entrepreneur and inventor, who in the early years of her company, was considered “the next Steve Job”. She is the founder, Chairman, and CEO of Theranos, a privately held company known for its claims to have devised revolutionary blood tests that used very small amounts of blood. Ms. Holmes, a Stanford University dropout who founded her company, Theranos, at age 19, captivated investors and the public with her invention: an affordable technology done at a local drugstore that could detect a wide range of illnesses. Theranos raised as much as $900 million between 2014 and 2015 on the back of CEO Elizabeth Holmes’ promise that she could revolutionize blood testing. In 2009, as Theranos was on the verge of