Elizabeth Holmes, the female Steve Jobs whose 'medical miracle' fooled America
The college drop-out turned self-made billionaire invented a revolutionary blood test - that never worked. Now she faces trial for fraud By Mick Brown 31 August 2021 • 9:28am The woman, the myth, the flawed genius: Elizabeth Holmes, founder of Theranos CREDIT : Theranos In September 2015, Elizabeth Holmes , founder of Theranos, a company that claimed to have developed a blood-testing process that would revolutionise medicine, appeared on stage as one of the keynote guests at the meeting of the Clinton Global Initiative in New York, alongside Bill Clinton and the Chinese investor and founder of Alibaba, Jack Ma. In her uniform of black turtleneck sweater, black jacket and black trousers, and radiating an aura of calm and self-assurance, Holmes took part in a conversation about the role of technology and entrepreneurialism in affecting global change. Access to health information, she told the audience of policy-makers, thinkers, and the heads of corporations and foundations, was ‘a bas