businesswoman Elizabeth Holmesfamed in the industry for founding a start-up that promised complete, non-invasive blood tests, begins this Tuesday (30) serving time in the US.

Primary responsibility for Theranosbecame a market sensation in the last decade, was sentenced to 11 years in prison. She used to be compared to Steve Jobs, but today she ended up in a maximum security prison. Briana small town near Houston in the US state of Texas.

Holmes responded with release after posting bail and claiming he was “treated unfairly” in the courts.

She lived in San Diego with her boyfriend, who is the father of the couple’s children, a two-year-old boy and a three-month-old girl. Offer released in November 2022at the same time, the court was postponed several times both for personal reasons of the business woman and at the height of the pandemic. COVID-19.

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Theranos was founded in 2003 by Holmes, but it wasn’t until years later that it began to attract the attention of the press and investors with the promise of a machine called Edisonwho will conduct revolutionary tests using just a drop of blood.

However, around 2014, fraud scandals began to flare up in the company: the secret of the technology was that it actually machine didn’t work, with inaccurate tests, false positives and falsifications. At that time, the company had already passed several investment rounds, reaching $10 billion in market valuation.

Holmes was indicted in 2018 and the verdict charged her mainly with investor fraud rather than patient risk. Holmes’ partner and later companion at the time Sunny Balwani, was also charged and arrested. He was president and chief operating officer, but is now serving a 13-year term in California.

The Theranos scam was the subject of a documentary (Inventor: Bloodlust in Silicon Valleyavailable on HBO Max) and series – screeningV Star+With Amanda Seyfried play Holmes and Naveen Andrews (Said from Lost) as Sunny.

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Source: Bloomberg.

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