Elizabeth Holmes was once the media darling of Silicon Valley.
By founding and running her unicorn biotech startup, Theranos, Holmes became a living opportunity to ignore the fact that the new economy excludes many women from being billionaires in the worlds of science and tech.
She became a seemingly weekly guest on Charlie Rose and an almost omnipresent figure at the biggest power events. Her blond hair and black turtleneck popped up everywhere from Davos to the “Time 100.” Everyone around her wondered if she was the second coming of Steve Jobs or, like, even better.
