She was a university dropout who went on to become one of Silicon Valley’s wealthiest and most notorious CEOs.
Elizabeth Holmes was the founder of blood test company Theranos and became the world’s youngest self-made billionaire. She claimed her business had invented technology that would revolutionise the world of disease diagnosis.
But the firm could not keep up with her claims and the whole thing came crashing down around her. She was eventually convicted of fraud and faces up to 20 years behind bars when she is sentenced in September.
