Elizabeth Holmes founded her company Theranos at the age of 19 and it set out to revolutionise laboratories through blood tests that could be performed rapidly while using very small amounts of blood. A year later, Holmes had dropped out of her studies at California’s elite Stanford University so she could focus entirely on Theranos. By age 31 she was a celebrated young entrepreneur in male-dominated Silicon Valley. By then she was worth $9 billion – the youngest self-made billionaire in the United States.
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