Elizabeth Holmes: The downfall of a billion d...

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A public inquiry resumes this week to investigate the deaths of over 2000 mental health inpatients in the care of NHS trusts in Essex. We unpick some of the themes the Lampard Inquiry has been hearing, and speak to a whistleblower about her experiences working on one of the wards ...  Show more

When Elizabeth Holmes founded Theranos, the blood testing start-up, she was held up as one of the next great tech innovators.

But her company collapsed, and she was accused of lying about how well Theranos’s technology worked. Now she is on trial on fraud charges.

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Elizabeth Holmes has been found guilty of fraud. We ask what lessons her downfall holds for Theranos’s high-profile backers—and for a startup culture of hype before science. As Apple crosses a $3trn valuation we examine the motives for its stop-start forays into the competitiv ...

The Dropout tells the story of the rise and fall of former Silicon Valley darling Elizabeth Holmes, the youngest self-made female billionaire. She dropped out of Stanford to launch her company Theranos -- claiming her technology could detect hundreds of diseases from a drop or tw ...  Show more

Hollywood, Wall Street ma anche la Silicon Valley sono piene di menti geniali ma anche di impostori. “Fake it till you make it” fingi finché non ce la fai, è il loro mantra. E farcela significa una cosa sola: ricevere una pioggia di milioni da parte di investitori. Esattamente co ...  Show more