Elizabeth Holmes

Quick Facts

Full Name	Elizabeth Holmes
Occupation	Entrepreneur
Date Of Birth	Feb 3, 1984(1984-02-03)
Age	40
Birthplace	Washington
Country	United States
Birth City	Washington, D.C.
Horoscope	Aquarius

Elizabeth Holmes Biography

Elizabeth Holmes is one of the most popular and richest Entrepreneur who was born on February 3, 1984 in Washington, Washington, D.C., United States. CEO and Entrepreneur, known for her role in the founding of the blood-testing firm Theranos. The company was criticized in 2015 when the accuracy of their tests was called into question, prompting to the Centers for Medicare and Medicaid Services to request the exclusion of Theranos from the market for a period of two years.

Her name was voted America’s most popular self-made woman according to Forbes in 2015. She was four places over She was named America’s top Self-Made Woman by Forbes in 2015, four spots ahead of Oprah Winfrey…

Holmes was romantically involved with technology entrepreneur Ramesh “Sunny” Balwani, a Pakistani-born Hindu who immigrated to India and then the US. She met him in 2002 at age 18, while still in school; he was 19 years older than her and married to another woman at the time. Balwani divorced his wife in 2002 and became romantically involved with Holmes in 2003, about the same time Holmes dropped out of college, and the couple moved into an apartment around

2005. Although Balwani did not officially join the company until 2009, as chief operating officer, he was advising Holmes behind the scenes before then. Holmes and Balwani ran the company jointly in a corporate culture of “secrecy and fear”. He left Theranos in 2016 in the wake of investigations. The circumstances of his departure are unclear; Holmes states that she fired him, but Balwani states that he left of his own accord.

Holmes attended St. John’s School in Houston. During high school, she was interested in computer programming and claims she started her first business selling C++ compilers to Chinese universities. Her parents had arranged Mandarin Chinese home tutoring, and partway through high school, Holmes began attending Stanford University’s summer Mandarin program. In 2002, Holmes attended Stanford, where she studied chemical engineering and worked as a student researcher and laboratory assistant in the School of Engineering.

She was the daughter of Christian Holmes IV and Noel Daoust and has a brother called Christian Holmes V.

Elizabeth Holmes Net Worth

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She was a student at Stanford University, where she took chemical engineering classes but did not finish her studies. Motivated to avoid needles she created Theranos with the intention to provide non-invasive blood tests.

She’s been credited with around 80 patents, and her company was previously valued at close to 10 billion dollars. She is related to one of those who founded Fleischmann’s yeast.

Elizabeth Anne Holmes (born February 3, 1984) is an American businesswoman who founded and was the CEO of Theranos, a now-defunct health technology company. The company soared in valuation after she and others claimed the company had revolutionized blood testing by developing testing methods that could use surprisingly small volumes of blood, such as from a fingerprick, and also claimed these tests could be performed very rapidly using small automated devices the company had developed. By 2015, Forbes had named Holmes the youngest and wealthiest self-made female billionaire in America, on the basis of a $9 billion valuation of her company. In the following year, following revelations of potential fraud about its claims, Forbes had revised its published estimate of her net worth to zero, and Fortune had named Holmes one of the “World’s Most Disappointing Leaders”.

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Who is Elizabeth Holmes Dating?

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Theranos’s board and investors included many influential figures. Holmes’s first major investor was Tim Draper – Silicon Valley venture capitalist and father of Holmes’s childhood friend Jesse Draper – who “cut Holmes a check” for $1 million upon hearing her initial pitch for the firm that would become Theranos. Theranos’s pool of major investors expanded to include: Rupert Murdoch; the Walton family; the DeVos family including Betsy DeVos; the Cox family of Cox Enterprises; and Carlos Slim Helú. All of these investors lost tens to hundreds of millions of dollars each when Theranos folded.

Facts & Trivia

Elizabeth Ranked on the list of most popular Entrepreneur. Also ranked in the elit list of famous people born in United States. Elizabeth Holmes celebrates birthday on February 3 of every year.

Before the collapse of Theranos, Holmes received widespread acclaim. In 2015, she was appointed a member of the Harvard Medical School Board of Fellows and was named one of TIME magazine’s Most Influential People in the World. Holmes received the Under 30 Doers Award from Forbes and ranked on its 2015 list of the Most Powerful Women. She was also named Woman of the Year by Glamour and received an Honorary Doctor of Humane Letters degree from Pepperdine University. Holmes was awarded the 2015 Horatio Alger Award, making her the youngest recipient in its history. She previously had been named Fortune’ s Businessperson of the Year and listed on its 40 Under 40.

Top Facts about Elizabeth Holmes

1. Elizabeth Holmes founded Theranos in 2003 at age 19.
2. She claimed to have developed a revolutionary blood testing technology.
3. The company was valued at $9 billion before its collapse.
4. Holmes faces charges of wire fraud and conspiracy to commit fraud.
5. She could face up to 20 years in prison if convicted.
6. Her trial is set for March 2021.
7. Holmes’ net worth has plummeted from $4.5 billion to zero.
8. She dropped out of Stanford University to start Theranos.
9. The company’s technology was exposed as fraudulent by investigative reporting.
10. Holmes’ story is the subject of an HBO documentary, “The Inventor.”

Where is Elizabeth Holmes today?

Currently out on a $500,000 bail bond, Holmes is living it up in her $135 million Green Gables estate in Silicon Valley with her husband and son.

Is Elizabeth Holmes a con?

On January 3, 2022, Elizabeth Holmes was found guilty on four out of seven counts of criminal fraud against investors. The jury was unable to reach a unanimous verdict on the other three charges. She was acquitted on four additional charges related to patient fraud.

Why did Elizabeth Holmes lower her voice?

Former Theranos employees have claimed that Holmes’ signature deep voice was fake, and that she taught herself to speak at a lower register to be taken more seriously in the male-dominated world of Silicon Valley. Holmes’ family has denied that she intentionally altered her voice.

How did Elizabeth Holmes change her voice?

Around the episode’s midpoint, Holmes reenacts a conversation with an insubordinate employee and lowers her voice in an attempt to sound more authoritative. Her CEO transformation – complete with black suit and Steve Jobs-inspired turtleneck – is finished by the episode’s end.

Did the Theranos machine ever work?

The technology didn’t exist. Theranos, despite all its flashy promises, wasn’t actually able to run tests accurately in its device on a single drop of blood. Two years after the company closed its labs, its charismatic founder Elizabeth Holmes and former company president Sunny Balwani were indicted for fraud.