Theranos Elizabeth Holmes court Reuters/Stephen Lam

Elizabeth Holmes dropped out of Stanford University at 19 to start blood-testing startup Theranos, and grew the company to a valuation of $9 billion.

But it all came crashing down when the shortcomings and inaccuracies of the company’s technology were exposed, and Theranos and Holmes were charged with „massive fraud.“

A California judge set a date Friday for the fraud trial to start: July 2020.

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In 2014, blood-testing startup Theranos and its founder, Elizabeth Holmes, were on top of the world.

Back then, Theranos was a revolutionary idea thought up by a woman hailed as a genius who styled herself as a female Steve Jobs. Holmes was the world’s youngest female self-made billionaire, and Theranos was one of Silicon Valley’s unicorn startups, valued at an estimated $9 billion.

But then it all came crashing down.

The shortcomings and inaccuracies of Theranos’s technology were exposed, along with the role Holmes played in covering it all up. Holmes was ousted as CEO and charged with „massive fraud,“ and the company was forced to close its labs and testing centers, ultimately shuttering operations altogether.

Read more: Theranos founder Elizabeth Holmes faces jail time for fraud charges. Her trial is set to begin in summer 2020.

Now, Holmes faces up to 20 years in prison. In the meantime, as she awaits trial, she’s reportedly found the time to get engaged, and now married.

This is how Holmes went from precocious child, to ambitious Stanford dropout, to an embattled startup founder charged with fraud:

The rise and fall of Elizabeth Holmes, who started Theranos when she was 19 and became the world’s youngest female billionaire but will now face a trial over ‚massive fraud‘ in July 2020

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