Elizabeth Holmes is one of the most popular and richest Entrepreneur who was born on February 3, 1984 in Washington, Washington, D.C., United States. CEO and Entrepreneur, known for her role in the founding of the blood-testing firm Theranos. The company was criticized in 2015 when the accuracy of their tests was called into question, prompting to the Centers for Medicare and Medicaid Services to request the exclusion of Theranos from the market for a period of two years.
Her name was voted America’s most popular self-made woman according to Forbes in 2015. She was four places over She was named America’s top Self-Made Woman by Forbes in 2015, four spots ahead of Oprah Winfrey…
Holmes was romantically involved with technology entrepreneur Ramesh “Sunny” Balwani, a Pakistani-born Hindu who immigrated to India and then the US. She met him in 2002 at age 18, while still in school; he was 19 years older than her and married to another woman at the time. Balwani divorced his wife in 2002 and became romantically involved with Holmes in 2003, about the same time Holmes dropped out of college, and the couple moved into an apartment around 2005. Although Balwani did not officially join the company until 2009, as chief operating officer, he was advising Holmes behind the scenes before then. Holmes and Balwani ran the company jointly in a corporate culture of “secrecy and fear”. He left Theranos in 2016 in the wake of investigations. The circumstances of his departure are unclear; Holmes states that she fired him, but Balwani states that he left of his own accord.
Holmes attended St. John’s School in Houston. During high school, she was interested in computer programming and claims she started her first business selling C++ compilers to Chinese universities. Her parents had arranged Mandarin Chinese home tutoring, and partway through high school, Holmes began attending Stanford University’s summer Mandarin program. In 2002, Holmes attended Stanford, where she studied chemical engineering and worked as a student researcher and laboratory assistant in the School of Engineering.
She was the daughter of Christian Holmes IV and Noel Daoust and has a brother called Christian Holmes V.
