In a climactic end to a stunning fall from grace for the one-time golden child of Silicon Valley, Elizabeth Holmes has reported to a federal prison in Texas to begin an 11-year sentence for cheating investors of her blood-testing start-up Theranos.
But for her many advocates and detractors, the prison sentence is unlikely to end the debate around whether Holmes was a well-intentioned humanitarian who got in over her head, or a charlatan in a turtleneck sweater who chose “deceit over candour”.
