The Great Crooks of Finance: Elizabeth Holmes, the Entrepreneur Who Promised Miracles From a Few Drops of Blood

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For a decade, Elizabeth Holmes and her company Theranos claimed to be able to revolutionize medical diagnoses by analyzing only a few drops of blood. An idea that seduced the American political and economic gratin, before evaporating with the hundreds of millions of dollars investedA company created at the age of 19, a disruptive medical innovation and hundreds of millions of dollars invested: in short, the perfect ingredients of a success story…