How did Elizabeth Holmes fool smart investors with Theranos?

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Elizabeth Holmes, the founder of Theranos, was all of 19 when she founded her healthcare diagnostics company. The company’s machine, Edison, was going to revolutionize the healthcare industry. Theranos claimed that they could run over 200 tests with a single drop of blood. Goodbye, painful needles!

But as of May 2022, Elizabeth Holmes is awaiting sentencing in multiple cases of fraud and manipulation. Theranos does not even exist anymore. The young entrepreneur who regularly graced the covers of leading magazines, and hobnobbed with leaders and business tycoons like Bill Clinton and Jack Ma now runs away from any public attention.

Watch the full video 'How did Elizabeth Holmes fool smart investors with Theranos?' to find out how...

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00:00 - 01:34 - Introduction
01:35 - 03:49 - How did all of this happen? And if she was a fraud, how did she manage to fool smart investors?
03:50 - 13:37 - What was it about Holmes that fooled some of the smartest people on the planet?
13:38 - 16:28 - What are the lessons from Theranos-Holmes story?
16:29 - 17:03 - End

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Reminds me of Arindham Chaudhary of IIPM