Cryptic Accounts
Cryptic Accounts
Patrick Ryan & Dennis Chanay
Ep. 75 - Theranos & Elizabeth Holmes
1 hour 39 minutes Posted Jun 23, 2021 at 9:00 am.
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Elizabeth Holmes started Theranos in 2003 and dropped out of Stanford University to revolutionize the medical industry with a better way to analyze blood, with a secret new technology. Over the decade that followed, Theranos came to be valued at 9 billion dollars.

The only problem, the tech didn't work.