2022-04-02
22 分钟This is in conversation from Apple News.
I'm Shemitah Basu.
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Elizabeth Holmes was only 19 years old when she founded the biotech startup Theranos.
And she knew that she had a compelling pitch.
Just one drop of blood is all it takes to perform hundreds of diagnostic tests.
We see a world in which every person has access to actionable health information at the time it matters.
A world in which no one ever has to say, if only I'd known sooner.
But the technology she was bragging about didn't work.
And it meant real people were getting wrong diagnoses.
There was a woman who thought that she was miscarrying because of a Theranos test.
There was a woman who thought she might have HIV because of a Theranos test.
There was a man who thought he had prostate cancer because of a Theranos test.
That's Rebecca Jarvis.
She's the chief business economics and technology correspondent for ABC News.
She also hosts ABC Audio's podcast about Theranos called the Dropout.
Her podcast is the basis for a new Hulu series with the same name.
Elizabeth Holmes stood in the spotlight.
She was the one who was on the magazine covers, the one who charmed investors and politicians and Silicon Valley.
But there's another person at the center of this story who's worth knowing.