
Elizabeth Holmes -- Born: 1984-02-03. Occupation: businessperson. Employer: Theranos. Education: St. John's School. Awards: Horatio Alger Award.
Born1984-02-03
Occupationbusinessperson, general manager
EmployerTheranos
EducationSt. John's School, Stanford University
AwardsHoratio Alger Award
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“It’s been hell and torture to be here,”
PEOPLE2026-01-22Source“Bill has never met her. Like he said, we looked at them earlier and decided not to go forward based on the information we saw in the outside world and the tests we did,”
TechCrunch2015-10-21Source“If he just wants to talk badly about us he’s free to talk badly about us. It’s a free country.”
TechCrunch2015-10-21Source“When we use venous draws we use commercially available machines. When we do finger pricks that is proprietary technology not available.”
TechCrunch2015-10-21Source“never seen The Wall Street Journal as a tabloid magazine.”
TechCrunch2015-10-21Source“It’s not that we don’t want to go that route. It’s that if you are doing 120 FDA submissions at the same time you don’t have time to sleep,”
TechCrunch2015-10-21Source“But we are doing things differently and we are working to make a difference and that means people raise questions, and that's okay,”
CNBC2015-10-15Source“This is what happens when you work to change things, and first they think you're crazy, then they fight you and then all of a sudden you change the world,”
CNBC2015-10-15Source“We're not going to be bought,”
CNBC2015-09-29Source“my question is always, ‘Why?’ Because there’s got to be a mission—there’s got to be a reason you’re doing it so that no matter how hard it is, you want to keep doing it over and over and over again, because you love it.”
Fortune2014-12-04Source“We will fail over a thousand times till we get this thing to work, but we will get it on the 1001 st time.”
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“She just stared through me,”
BBC News2021-08-30Source“He’s never met with us, he’s never reached out to us,”
TechCrunch2015-10-21Source“I don’t even think that’s possible,”
TechCrunch2015-10-21Source“There’s a lot of different elements of our work that have become conflated,”
TechCrunch2015-10-21Source“To dilute it and put it on a commercial analyzer is not what we do.”
TechCrunch2015-10-21Source“We have voluntarily decided not to use our nanotainer tubes until we cut over to the left side of the road,”
TechCrunch2015-10-21Source“When people say, ‘I want to start a business,’”
Fortune2014-12-04Source“opportunity to connect with so many young people … with little girls in particular, who don’t often get to hear from young women who have really pursued science and engineering and business.”
Fortune2014-12-04Source“Yes, it’s something that’s cool, and something that they can excel in.”
Fortune2014-12-04SourceWorks Timeline
Undated
- Medical device for analyte monitoring and drug deliveryPatent
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- forbes.com · 2026-07-11
- abcnews.com · 2026-04-27
- PEOPLE · 2026-01-22
- theguardian.com · 2026-01-21
- apnews.com · 2025-02-24
- reuters.com · 2024-06-11
- businessinsider.com · 2024-05-25
- NPR · 2023-05-30
- apnews.com · 2023-05-27
- nytimes.com · 2023-05-07
- reuters.com · 2022-11-18
- nytimes.com · 2022-01-04
- apnews.com · 2022-01-04
- NPR · 2022-01-04
- nytimes.com · 2022-01-04
- The Verge · 2021-09-20
- bbc.com · 2021-08-30
- justice.gov · 2019-02-26
- wired.com · 2014-02-18
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