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How $9 billion blood-testing startup Theranos blew up

October 27, 2016

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This is the story of a flawed idea that just kept going until a man committed suicide, a company imploded, and an entire industry was left reeling.

Blood work

In 2014, Elizabeth Holmes was the young, blond, fearless CEO of a hot Silicon Valley startup, a biotech firm she had founded in 2003 after dropping out of Stanford at 19. The company, Theranos, was pioneering a new kind of blood testing.

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