Elizabeth Holmes built a corporation based on secrecy, hoping she could still pull it off—then it all fell apart. From the VFArchive, how her Silicon Valley house of cards came tumbling down:
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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