USA – Elizabeth Holmes was named to this year’s ‘TIME 100 list of the world’s most influential people’. She’s being compared to visionaries like Bill Gates and Steve Jobs. Just as Gates wanted a computer on every desk, Holmes wants a blood test in every drugstore.
At the age of 19, Holmes dropped out of Stanford University. She had a little tuition money and a big idea. Now, at 31 she’s what lots of teenagers with that background likely strive to become: the youngest female billionaire in the world.
Holmes said “You know, it’s not what matters, what matters is how well we do in trying to make people’s lives better. That’s why I’m doing this. That’s why I work the way that I work. And that’s why I love what I’m doing so much.”
Holmes is running Theranos, the biotech company she founded in 2003. You’ll see her either in a black turtleneck or white lab coat taking a high-tech approach to blood testing. Instead of a needle to the arm, it’s a pin prick to the finger. Holmes is marketing Theranos as a faster and cheaper alternative to a process that hasn’t changed meaningfully in decades.
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