She was named the world’s first self-made billionaire by Forbes after she dropped out of Stanford University School of Engineering at the age of 19 to start her own biotech company.
Now 31, Elizabeth Holmes and her company Theranos is worth $9 billion (£5.9 billion), and U.S. president Barack Obama even made her an ambassador for global business.
Her company claims they plan to revolutionise venipuncture by offering 200 blood tests through just the prick of a finger using nano-diagnostic technology – which led the New York Times to declare she may be changing“the health-care paradigm as we know it”.
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