Sep 10, 2026
Author Spotlight: Elizabeth Holmes — The Woman Who Promised a Revolution in a Drop of Blood
A deep dive on Elizabeth Holmes — the Washington, D.C.-born girl descended from a yeast fortune who wrote to her father at nine that she wanted to discover 'something mankind didn't know was possible to do,' dropped out of Stanford at nineteen to found Theranos, became in 2014 the world's youngest self-made female billionaire on the strength of a $9 billion blood-testing miracle that did not work, and was convicted of fraud in 2022 before reporting to a Texas federal prison in May 2023; her defining reflections on discovery, backup plans, the character she created, and the person she insists she is not; and the legacy of the woman the new A24 documentary You Can See Everything has returned, once again, to the top of the world's attention.