She is the founder of Theranos, a biotech company known as "Female Jobs" in Silicon Valley – Elizabeth Holmes! She is also by far the most flirtatious beauty liar in the world!
She created a once $9 billion biotech company with just a drop of blood, and with a clever mouth and big blue eyes, Silicon Valley nearly collapsed. It has become a lingering nightmare for countless people. February 1984 Sherlock Holmes was born into a very wealthy family in Washington, D.C., where his father was previously vice president of Enron. From a very young age, Sherlock Holmes knew she wanted to be a billionaire.
In 2002, at the age of 18, she entered the world's famous stanford university, and during a trip to Asia, The Holmes witnessed the outbreak of SARS. Since then, she has returned home determined to change the world. When she got home, she didn't leave her room for five days in a row, slept two hours a night, and worked on a patented idea. It is a wearable patch that continuously tests the wearer's blood and displays the correct treatment medication in real time. In order to immerse herself in research, she learned from Steve Jobs, Bill Gates, Zuckerberg and other Silicon Valley bigwigs. He dropped out of Stanford at the age of 19 and used his tuition to establish direns, a name that will be remembered around the world ten years later.
Traditional blood tests involve a needle of blood drawn from a vein. Samples need to be sent to the laboratory. It is then tested with a device, and the results often take hours or even days to get. And Sherlock Holmes wanted to develop an instrument that only needed a drop of blood to see the results instantly, to change all this. All you have to do is prick your finger, store the blood in a small cartridge, and then push that cartridge into the machine to complete the test.
When The Sherlock Holmes had this idea, he went to a professor at Stanford Medical School and passionately expounded his ideas, but unfortunately this professor was naturally very knowledgeable, and he tried to persuade her bitterly. Your idea is very good, but in theory it is actually unlikely to be realized. But the Sherlock Holmes, he did not believe in this evil. So he went to Chaningrobers, the dean of Stanford Engineering. This time, with her unique demagogic skills, she completely conquered the Dean. She told the dean that if I had such a machine, you would only have to go to the supermarket or pharmacy downstairs from your house, draw a drop of blood, and spend dozens of dollars in a few hours. To be able to detect a lot of the health indicators that are needed, without the terrible needles, without the long wait, what a wonderful thing, this is what I want to do, I want to change the world.
In this way, the professor's blood boiled, not only encouraged her to be bold, but also became the first board member of Direns, and introduced a special number of resources and investors to Sherlock Holmes, who repeatedly publicly stated that Holmes was a genius. After getting the first big guy, with the support of The Dean of Stanford, not only did he get the patent certificate, but also the financing road of Direns was quite smooth, and he easily raised an initial capital of $6 million within a year.
After the Sherlock Holmes raised $6 million, she faced two problems.
The first is the problem of machine heat dissipation, which interferes with each other due to activities such as heat, light, and electromagnetics. The second problem, the problem of blood volume, in order to obtain a sufficient amount of test samples only through needle on the finger, the blood droplets must be diluted, and detected on the diluted samples, which produces inaccurate results and is beyond the detection capabilities of the hardware. So in short, to make this technology possible, Holmes must make a major breakthrough in all aspects of blood analysis. Faced with such two mountains, Holmes definitely needs a subversive theory, in order to have a glimmer of possibility to change the world, although she does not have real talent, but she has ambitions, but also has the ability to brag, as long as someone believes will give you money, and then you hurry to find talents to give you research and development, so that the fastest development, if you step by step first, and then go to find money, then others have long been married first, Sherlock Holmes woman is naturally deeply comfortable with this truth, her cowhide blows even she herself believes.
In 2006, Sherlock Holmes recruited engineers from Apple, Google and other companies to design a prototype machine called Edison. However, no single 'Edison' was able to accurately or perform all the tests Sherlock Holmes claimed. On the design team, Sherlock Holmes also followed Jobs's strategy, hiring two design teams to compete with each other, and those who failed would be fired. And anyone who questions this product will also be pressed as a person without the spirit of Silicon Valley and will be dismissed. But faced with technical difficulties and the needs of real patients, it is impossible to rely on coaxing alone. So, she went to a medical institution and insisted on conducting real tests on people with cancer. Results shown by doctors using laboratory-derived results. 70% are wrong, which is very fatal. So she had to inherit her father's business and embarked on the old road of data fraud.
In the end, there were more than 170,000 people who used "Edison" to test their blood, but because the sirens did not open many outlets, although some doctors and patients complained, but with the help of Sherlock Holmes's seductive ability and capital, this is not worth mentioning. After fooling the team, fooling the customer, and starting to fool the business giant, Walgreens took the lead in investing $140 million. This was followed by former U.S. Secretary of State Henry Kissinger, former director of the U.S. Office of Management and Budget, George Schultz, and future Secretary of Defense Jim. In 2016, the Hillary Clinton Campaign Foundation also invested $94 million. Rupert Murdoch media tycoon, invested 125 million. The Walmart brothers invested 150 million.
In this way, The Sherlock Holmes successfully raised $700 million, the company's valuation reached $9 billion, and her own value reached $5 billion. In order not to let the company's secrets leak, employees are forced to sign confidentiality agreements when they start and leave. This made her even crazier. In 2014, Fortune magazine ran a front-page story titled "The CEO Wants Nothing to Lose." This made the Sherlock Holmes woman a celebrity, and from then on, she constantly appeared in the media. NPR, Fox Business, CNBC, CNN and CBS News all take turns reporting on the success story of the youngest self-made female billionaire of all time. Barack Obama appointed Sherlock Holmes as the U.S. Ambassador for Global Entrepreneurship, and she was also named a Fellow at Harvard Medical School. Then U.S. Vice President Joe Biden, after visiting her company, gave praise for the future of technology.
But soon, the dark truth about Theranos was finally revealed in a October 15, 2015 Wall Street Journal article. Shortly after the news broke, as more and more people were misdiagnosed, the FDA urgently stopped all the direct blood tests in the wogrence pharmacy, the DRUG ADMINISTRATION CMMS raid checked thethernos revoked his laboratory license, and people also began to sue thethernos one by one, and in 2018, Theranos was dissolved, and the SEC sc banned Shermore women from serving as executives of U.S. public companies for ten years. And paid a fine of $500,000, of course, this is only the punishment of the SFC, Sherlock Holmes and his chief operating officer, will also face up to 11 counts, and up to 20 years in prison. Well, thanks for watching, and don't forget to like, follow, and comment. We'll see you next time!