Finns det verkligen ingen tråd om Theranos? Har jag missat sökningen? Jag börjar med en inledning så får vi se. Rättegången inleds just nu.
Elizabeth Holmes av fin släkt med höga backare grundade ett medicinsktekniskt företag för analys av små mängder blod. Hon hyllades av alla och företaget bedömdes värt $10 bn.
Tyvärr var allt bluff och nu inleds rättegången. Elisabeth Holmes riskerar 20 års fängelse.
Hon sägs planera det s.k. Svengali-försvaret. Hon kommer att hävda sig utnyttjad sexuellt och på andra vis av sin tidigare pojkvän, styrelsekollegan Sunny Balwani och kommer att försöka tippa hela byket på honom.
Hennes farfars farfars far av judisk ätt från Ungern grundade ett livsmedelsimperium som fortfarande existerar.
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Theranos (/ˈθɛrənoʊs/) was an American privately held health technology corporation.[2] It was initially touted as a breakthrough technology company, with claims of having devised blood tests that required only very small amounts of blood and could be performed very rapidly using small automated devices the company had developed. However, these claims were later proven to be false.[3][4][5] Founded in 2003 by 19-year-old Elizabeth Holmes,[6] Theranos raised more than US$700 million from venture capitalists and private investors,[7] resulting in a $10 billion valuation at its peak in 2013 and 2014.[8][9]
https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Theranos
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Elizabeth Holmes was born February 3, 1984, in Washington, D.C.[10] Her father, Christian Rasmus Holmes IV, was a vice president at Enron, an energy company that later went bankrupt after an accounting fraud scandal.
https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Elizabeth_Holmes
Det borde ha ringt varningsklockor redan där 🤣🤣🤣
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She was "the world's youngest self-made female billionaire", trumpeted Forbes magazine. The "next Steve Jobs", said Inc, another business magazine that put her on the cover.
In 2014, Elizabeth Holmes, then 30 years old, was on top of the world. A Stanford University drop-out, she had founded a company valued at $9bn (£6.5bn) for supposedly bringing about a revolution in diagnosing disease.
With a few drops of blood, Theranos promised that its Edison test could detect conditions such as cancer and diabetes quickly without the hassle of needles. Bigwigs from Henry Kissinger to Rupert Murdoch invested.
But by 2015, the seams were coming apart, and within a year, Ms Holmes was exposed as a fake. The technology she touted didn't work at all, and by 2018 the company she founded had collapsed.
US Treasury Secretary George Schultz, decorated Marine Corps general James Mattis (who later served in the Trump administration) and America's richest family, the Waltons, were among her backers.
On stage with former US President Bill Clinton in 2015. At the time Ms Holmes was said to be the world's youngest self-made female billionaire.
https://www.bbc.com/news/business-58336998
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Bolaget Theranos blodprovsmaskin skulle göra avancerad sjukvård tillgänglig för alla, men allt var ett luftslott och investerare förlorade miljarder kronor. Nu börjar rättegången i ett av 2000-talets mest omtalade bedrägerier.
Blod, lögner och miljarder i tidernas bedrägerifall
När Elizabeth Holmes i dag infinner sig i domstolen i San Jose, strax söder om San Francisco, är de flesta detaljerna om henne och hennes bolag Theranos redan kända – ökända, till och med.
Det har skrivits böcker och spaltmeter i tidningar, det har producerats dokumentärfilmer och tv-serier, och ...
https://www.svd.se/blod-logner-och-m...-bedragerifall
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Investors included Oracle founder Larry Ellison, venture capital firm Draper Fisher Jurvetson, now Secretary of Education Betsy DeVos
https://money.cnn.com/2018/03/15/tec...nos/index.html
(Oracle köpte Sun grundat av Bechtolsheim som skrev första checken till Google. Jurvetson räddade Musk 2008. It's a small world.)
https://theguardian.com/technology/2...alwani-abusive
Theranos saknade också nästan helt medicinsk erfarenhet i styrelsen.
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Theranos has barely any medical experts on its board of directors
https://www.businessinsider.com/ther...5-10?r=US&IR=T
https://www.ictandhealth.com/wp-cont...E-Holmes.2.jpg