{"id":4241,"date":"2022-01-04T14:36:04","date_gmt":"2022-01-04T13:36:04","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/costops.com\/index.php\/2022\/01\/04\/elizabeth-holmes-from-next-steve-jobs-to-convicted-fraudster\/"},"modified":"2022-01-04T14:36:04","modified_gmt":"2022-01-04T13:36:04","slug":"elizabeth-holmes-from-next-steve-jobs-to-convicted-fraudster","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/costops.com\/index.php\/2022\/01\/04\/elizabeth-holmes-from-next-steve-jobs-to-convicted-fraudster\/","title":{"rendered":"Elizabeth Holmes: from \u2018next Steve Jobs\u2019 to convicted fraudster"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Founder of blood-testing company Theranos span \u2018alluring narrative that everyone wanted to believe\u2019<\/p>\n<p>Just six years ago Forbes magazine declared her the \u201cthe world\u2019s youngest self-made female billionaire\u201d and the \u201cnext Steve Jobs\u201d. Now, Elizabeth Holmes, the 37-year-old founder of the collapsed blood testing company <a href=\"https:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/technology\/theranos\">Theranos<\/a>, is facing decades in prison after being <a href=\"https:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/technology\/2022\/jan\/03\/elizabeth-holmes-trial-jury-finds-theranos-founder-guilty-on-four-counts\">found guilty<\/a> of conspiring to defraud her investors out of billions.<\/p>\n<p>Holmes, a university dropout with no medical training, had fooled regulators and some of the world\u2019s richest people, including Rupert Murdoch, Henry Kissinger and Larry Ellison, into believing she had figured out a way to test for a range of health conditions with just a pinprick of blood.<\/p>\n<p> <a href=\"https:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/technology\/2022\/jan\/04\/elizabeth-holmes-from-next-steve-jobs-to-convicted-fraudster\">Continue reading&#8230;<\/a><br \/>\n<img src=\"https:\/\/i.guim.co.uk\/img\/media\/71b30d88415c0a1ca8459abe399750a5d5ae7991\/0_154_3798_2280\/master\/3798.jpg?width=140&amp;quality=85&amp;auto=format&amp;fit=max&amp;s=8b5e4e5e044e833f26142408d7caf1a2\" title=\"Elizabeth Holmes: from \u2018next Steve Jobs\u2019 to convicted fraudster\" \/>Founder of blood-testing company Theranos span \u2018alluring narrative that everyone wanted to believe\u2019<br \/>\nJust six years ago Forbes magazine declared her the \u201cthe world\u2019s youngest self-made female billionaire\u201d and the \u201cnext Steve Jobs\u201d. Now, Elizabeth Holmes, the 37-year-old founder of the collapsed blood testing company Theranos, is facing decades in prison after being found guilty of conspiring to defraud her investors out of billions.<br \/>\nHolmes, a university dropout with no medical training, had fooled regulators and some of the world\u2019s richest people, including Rupert Murdoch, Henry Kissinger and Larry Ellison, into believing she had figured out a way to test for a range of health conditions with just a pinprick of blood. Continue reading&#8230;Technology | The Guardian<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Founder of blood-testing company Theranos span \u2018alluring narrative that everyone wanted to believe\u2019 Just six years ago Forbes magazine declared her the \u201cthe world\u2019s youngest self-made female billionaire\u201d and the \u201cnext Steve Jobs\u201d. Now, Elizabeth Holmes, the 37-year-old founder of the collapsed blood testing company Theranos, is facing decades in prison after being found guilty &hellip;<\/p>\n<p class=\"read-more\"> <a class=\"\" href=\"http:\/\/costops.com\/index.php\/2022\/01\/04\/elizabeth-holmes-from-next-steve-jobs-to-convicted-fraudster\/\"> <span class=\"screen-reader-text\">Elizabeth Holmes: from \u2018next Steve Jobs\u2019 to convicted fraudster<\/span> Read More &raquo;<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":0,"featured_media":4242,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":[],"categories":[1],"tags":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/costops.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4241"}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/costops.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/costops.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/costops.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=4241"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"http:\/\/costops.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4241\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/costops.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/4242"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/costops.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=4241"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/costops.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=4241"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/costops.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=4241"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}