Elizabeth Holmes was once the darling of Silicon Valley before the fairy-tale unravelled

Holmes' 'fake it 'till you make it' approach saw nearly everything crumble away Elizabeth Holmes was once the world's youngest self-made billionaire tipped to revolutionize the health industry as the darling of Silicon Valley. Former Theranos CEO Elizabeth Holmes arrives at federal court in San Jose, California, March 17, 2023 Then-Vice President Joe Biden speaks as Elizabeth Holmes, founder and CEO of Theranos listens during a visit to Theranos manufacturing in Newark, July 23, 2015 Theranos CEO Elizabeth Holmes and former Chief Operating Officer Sunny Balwani addressing the company's staff in 2015 Before those lies were uncovered in a series of explosive articles in The Wall Street Journal beginning in October 2015, Holmes had raised a staggering amount of money from some of the biggest names in business and tech. Theranos founder Elizabeth Holmes arrives with her family to be sentenced on her convictions for defrauding investors in the blood testing startup at the federal courthouse in San Jose, California, U.S., November 18, 2022 Elizabeth Holmes is photographed for Forbes Magazine on September 22, 2014 Elizabeth Holmes claimed that her 'Edison' device was a mini lab that could process over 240 tests, from cholesterol to infectious disease The theory that Holmes was running an elaborate scam was buttressed by trial evidence documenting her efforts to prevent the Journal's investigation from being published. In 2015, President Bill Clinton invited Holmes to speak at a panel for the Clinton Global Initiative annual meeting alongside Alibaba's Executive Chairman Jack Ma Elizabeth Holmes moves through security while on her way to court on March 17, 2023 in San Jose, California Holmes hold a nanotainer of blood at Theranos headquarters in Palo Alto, California, June 30, 2014 On one memorable day, Holmes recounted how she had never gotten over the trauma of being raped while enrolled at Stanford University.