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At age 31, Elizabeth Holmes is the world's most youthful independent female tycoon. Her uncle's demise from malignancy moved her to build up an approach to recognize sicknesses prior. She dropped out of Stanford University her sophomore year and established Theranos in 2003 to make less expensive, less demanding to-utilize blood tests. With a for all intents and purposes easy prick of the finger and a couple drops of blood, her labs can rapidly run a huge number of tests at a small amount of the cost of business labs. Holmes raised $400 million from financial speculators in 2014, esteeming the organization at $9 billion; her half stake is worth $4.5 billion. A few researchers have reprimanded Theranos for not distributed associate explored concentrates, but rather the organization got FDA freedom in July 2015 for a herpes test, and a waiver permitting non Theranos or Clinical Laboratory Improvement Amendments (CLIA)- ensured areas to utilize its test.
Born Elizabeth Anne Holmes
3 February 1984 (age 31)
Washington, D.C.
Residence Palo Alto, California
Nationality American
Alma mater Stanford University (dropped out)
Occupation Health technology entrepreneur
Net worth Increase $4.6 billion
Title Founder & CEO, Theranos
Term 2003–present
Parent(s) Christian Holmes IV
Noel Anne Daoust
