Her name is elizabeth holmes. Similar to Jobs' experience, Holmes dropped out of Stanford University in the United States at the age of 19 and started a business. He made his way out in Silicon Valley with a product and became famous in one fell swoop.
But the difference is that Steve Jobs' iPhone is genuine "hard goods", while the "female version of Steve Jobs" is a complete scam.
In 23, Holmes founded Theranos, whose main business is blood testing. As we all know, with the current medical means, we have to take a blood test, which is not only expensive, but also needs to puncture our fingers and draw a large tube of blood, which makes many people often flinch.
when Theranos was founded, it was announced that they had developed an "Edison" blood test instrument, which only needed one drop of blood, and could get the test reports of more than 2 items including cancer and high cholesterol within 4 hours, which was much cheaper than the conventional blood test, and the slogan was "One tiny drop changes everything".
This slogan has not only touched many patients, but also succeeded in getting big coffees including former US Secretary of State george shultz and Henry Kissinger, former US Secretary of Defense William Perry, media tycoon Murdoch, Oracle Bone Inscriptions founder Larry Ellision and so on as its platform. It has also successfully reached a cooperation with walgreen, the largest chain pharmacy in the United States, and medical institutions of all sizes have come to the door one after another. Holmes and Theranos have become celebrities and star enterprises in Silicon Valley.
However, lies will be exposed one day. In 215, The Wall Street Journal reported the news that Theranos' resigned employees broke the news, saying that the "Edison" blood testing instrument, which had been blown to the sky, was put on the market after only a few tests. In fact, it could not carry out more than 24 tests, and there were only 15 for the first time. Most of the other tests were only carried out on third-party blood testing equipment, and many technologies were still immature, resulting in inaccurate blood test results obtained by thousands of patients.
Then, it was Holmes who caused the US Food and Drug Administration to investigate. In 216, Silanos's blood test license was revoked. Forbes' valuation of Holmes' worth also dropped from $4.5 billion, or about RMB 29 billion, to zero.
On September 8th this year, Holmes, 37, was charged with 12 counts of fraud, and once convicted, he will face up to 2 years' imprisonment. Now it seems that there is only one Jobs, and the "female version of Jobs" has not yet appeared.