Although xiao han has just passed, Xiao Lei still can't guess the winter weather in Guangzhou, and can wear it for the entire four seasons in one day.
And such weather is a little inattentive, there is a high probability of getting sick, a little headache brain fever has become a common thing.
If you go to the hospital for a check-up, it is time-consuming and expensive, and it is really a bit overwhelming for the workers.
Whenever this happens, Xiao Lei always thinks that if there is a way to detect various diseases in one step.
However, with the current top medical level, this idea is still in the stage of fantasy.
After all, disease examination is a fairly rigorous medical field, and it is necessary to pass a comprehensive judgment in many aspects to finally determine whether there is a problem.
So, even if the doctor dares to pack a ticket now to "rest assured that it works", I think many people will "da" refuse.
But if Xiao Lei said that in fact, there is already a way to "verify whether a person has cancer with just a drop of blood", do the friends believe it?
This thing sounds like a big spectrum, but the goose really happened.
An American woman made the "blood test cancer test" project bigger and stronger, and she was stunned to make a career, and even became a billionaire.
However, today, she has been convicted of 4 counts by the court, and may face up to 20 years in prison!
From the billionaire envied by the world to the future "prisoner of the order", this gap is not a little bit, and today Xiao Lei will talk about her story.
The "female version of Jobs" came
The protagonist of the story is Elizabeth Holmes, Elizabeth Holmes, who has taken the route of beauty and learning from an early age.
Elizabeth in middle school has always maintained an all-A score, and at the age of 17, she was admitted to stanford University, a first-class university, which can be said to have a promising future.
Fast forward to 2003, when elizabeth was only 19 years old, decided to drop out of school to start a business, and that's where all the stories begin.
Elizabeth Holmes
Elizabeth founded Theranos, a name that is a combination of the English words "therapy" and diagnostic "diagnosis."
The company's business is "blood testing", which claims to detect cancer and hundreds of diseases by simply taking a few drops of blood in a small hole in the fingertip.
The point is that compared with traditional hospitals, this test method is simple to operate, fast and the price is quite cheap.
In the process of entrepreneurship, Elizabeth almost everywhere she can do it, all of them look to the idol Jobs.
For example, she will imitate Jobs's dressing style and maintain the "black turtleneck sweater + slacks" for many years.
When speaking in public, she also deliberately lowers her voice to make it sound deeper.
Even Jobs's "vegetarian" eating habits, she also accepted everything according to the order, what to learn.
Such a "technology freak" seems to be particularly popular in Silicon Valley, so, the outside world began to call her "female version of Jobs".
A smooth start-up process
To Say, Elizabeth is probably one of the most relaxed entrepreneurs among billionaires, not one of them.
Dad was a vice president at Enron and later held executive positions at the U.S. Agency for International Development, the National Environmental Protection Agency, and the Trade Administration; Mom was a member of the U.S. Congress.
Let's say that elizabeth should not worry about accumulating contacts.
And Elizabeth's own eloquence is also very good, and she has managed to get rid of many big men in the three circles of education, business and politics.
Her college mentor, Channing Robertson, dean of stanford's School of Engineering, was the company's first board member.
Oracle's founder Ellison, media tycoon Murdoch and other business tycoons have also invested heavily in her.
There were more people in politics, and Xiao Lei counted the twelve members of the board of directors, including two former U.S. secretaries of state, two former secretaries of defense, a former admiral, and a former senator.
Good guys, even Biden, who was vice president of the United States at the time, had visited Theranos to visit the platform.
With a bunch of big guys to endorse it, Theranos' little life is called a beauty.
In 2014, Theranos' unique blood test system won the approval of the U.S. Food and Drug Administration.
In 2015, Elizabeth was named "one of the richest, self-made women in America" by Forbes.
By this time, she was worth $4.5 billion, and Theranos was valued at a staggering $9 billion (about 60 billion yuan).
The scam was revealed
In fact, if you think about it, if you can really "drop blood to test for cancer", then why is Elizabeth not even nominated for the Nobel Prize in Medicine? After all, this is a great thing that benefits the medical community.
And it turns out that Theranos' so-called blood test technology was a hoax from the beginning.
In October 2015, journalist John Carreyrou released a blockbuster story that would bring down Elizabeth and Theranos after a months-long secret investigation.
According to the report, the results of Theranos' blood test program are not accurate at all, and they use other traditional medical equipment, not self-developed equipment.
And the amount of detection is not a few drops of blood on the fingertips of the advertised, but a small vial of blood drawn from the arm.
To sum up the wave, Theranos has basically not innovated in the past ten years, and it is good to lie.
As soon as this report came out, it can be said that it shocked the entire Silicon Valley, medical circles and technology circles.
The hoax was made clear, but Elizabeth the Goose was dead-mouthed and denied all the allegations.
So, the autumn accounting for Elizabeth and Theranos, was also arranged late but not later.
In January 2016, the U.S. Centers for Health Care and Medical Assistance inspected Theranos' lab in Newark, California, and issued a warning letter against employees operating non-compliant behavior.
In July of the same year, Elizabeth was banned from owning, operating, or directing blood testing services for two years.
In the days that followed, Theranos and Elizabeth were also very busy, with more and more censorship and lawsuits.
Until 2018, Theranos, which peaked at a valuation of 9 billion, announced the official closure.
A bumpy road to judgment
Although the company collapsed, the goose lawsuit against Elizabeth personally had no intention of stopping.
In June 2018, Elizabeth and her boyfriend, Barwani, were charged with nine counts of telecommunications fraud and two counts of conspiracy to commit telecommunications fraud.
However, Little Ray had to say but. These two people have been groping and playing in the circle for more than ten years, and they have long been old fritters.
In addition to denying guilt all the time, they concocted all kinds of lace news to rub the heat, causing the litigation judgment time to be delayed again and again.
Even in the end, the trick of pregnancy and childbirth was used, which once again successfully delayed the trial.
Elizabeth and boyfriend Balwani
But, the face of the face is always inescapable, on January 3, 2022, Elizabeth's verdict came down.
After a seven-day trial, the jury convicted Elizabeth on four counts, including one count of conspiracy to defraud investors and three counts of telecommunications fraud against investors.
Four other counts were not convicted, and three more have not yet been decided by the jury.
The charges mentioned above are likely to make 37-year-old Elizabeth face up to 20 years in prison.
It's just that in the end how many years to sentence, Xiao Lei estimates that there is no 2 or 3 years of tossing is not determined.
At last
With the end of the 14-year-old hoax, the story about Elizabeth will come to an end.
From a bully girl, a famous school dropout, a "female version of Jobs" to a future prisoner, Elizabeth's life experience in these decades can be called "legendary".
John Carreyrou, a journalist who debunked the scam, wrote the whole process into a book called "Blood into Gold", which sold quite well that year.
And, Xiao Lei also noticed that the adaptation rights to the book had been bought by Legendary Pictures.
Oscar winner Adam McKay will be the director, "big cousin" Jennifer Lawrence will play Elizabeth, interested friends may wish to squat a wave ~ ~
But in the end, Xiao Lei is more concerned about when the court's judgment will come out sooner.
Elizabeth Holmes, too, should pay the price for her criminal behavior.