He left the company in 2016 after investigations and fraud charges began to occur. Balwani as the COO of the Theranos was advising Holmes behind the scenes.

Holmes and Balwani met in 2002 and he is 19 years older than her. Image: Elizabeth Holmes' ex-partner, Ramesh Balwani Prior to that she was romantically involved with technology entrepreneur, Ramesh Balwani, an immigrant from India who was born in Pakistan. Talking about the former CEO of Theranos, Elizabeth Holmes' relationship status, she is secretly married to her fiance-turned husband, William Evans. In 2004, at the age of 20, Holmes incorporated the company Theranos which was initially called Real-Time Cures in Palo Alto. In 2003, she patent application on a wearable drug-delivery patch. At the end of her freshman year, Holmes worked in a laboratory at the Genome Institute of Singapore. In 2001, Holmes attended Stanford University where she studied chemical engineering but later dropped out in 2004. John's School in Houston and her parents arranged Mandarin Chinese home tutoring. Talking about her education, Holmes attended St. Her father, Christian Rasmus Holmes IV is a former vice president at Enron, while her mother, Noel Anne worked as a Congressional committee staffer.įrom an early age, Holmes developed a keen interest in computer programming. She holds an American nationality and belongs to the white ethnic group.

Image: Elizabeth Holmes, founder of TheranosĮlizabeth was born as Elizabeth Anne Holmes on February 3, 1984, in Washington, D.C., U.S. SO, let's know in detail about what happened that the former self-made richest women became one of the most disappointing leaders. She was widely popular as the founder and former CEO of Theranos, a now dissolved company. This was before she faced fraud allegations and non-transparency through her company, Theranos. The 35-year-old, Holmes was listed as one of America's Richest Self-Made Women in 2015 by Forbes with a net worth of $4.5 billion. Image: Elizabeth Holmes, founder of Theranos Take some entrepreneurs for examples such as Karli Harvey, Jo Wood, Joe Germanotta, among others. Some fail, while some reaches their destinations. In this 21st century of technology and communication, several young entrepreneurs emerge with their start-ups and new ideas.

And today we will talk about a beautiful American businesswoman, Elizabeth Holmes. There are people who rise to fame for their unique contributions but some of them might no be what we think.

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