SAN FRANCISCO: Elizabeth Holmes’s startup Theranos made her a multi-billionaire hailed as the next United States tech visionary by age 30, but it all evaporated in a flash of lawsuits, ignominy and, finally, criminal charges.
The rise and fall of Holmes, who on Monday was convicted of defrauding investors of her biotech startup, is a heavily-chronicled saga that prompted a hard look at her methods but also the unseemly aspects of startup life.
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