From the VFArchive: Her rise was meteoric. In the wake of Theranos's collapse, NickBilton explains why Silicon Valley saw only what Elizabeth Holmes wanted it to see.
From the moment Elizabeth Holmes arrived on the tech scene, around 2003, as a 19-year-old Stanford dropout with a world-changing idea, an epic ambition, and a Steve Jobs-ian aura, her rise was meteoric.
By last October, her revolutionary blood-testing start-up, Theranos, was valued at some $9 billion, and she had been anointed the world's youngest self-made female billionaire. Then areporter began looking at the science.
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