Elizabeth Holmes’s 11.25-year sentence will send shock waves through the tech industry

A middle-aged white woman with blonde hair, walks outside of a federal court building (Credit: Justin Sullivan—Getty Images)

After a yearlong legal battle—one in which Elizabeth Holmes has become the poster child for Silicon Valley-gone-wrong—the disgraced founder of blood testing company Theranos was sentenced to prison on Friday.

Holmes, who is 38 years old and pregnant with her second child, was sentenced to 11.25 years in federal prison, after being found guilty of defrauding investors (she was not found guilty of defrauding consumers)—a stiffer sentence than many had originally anticipated. She has two weeks to appeal.