Meet The World’s Youngest Self-Made Woman Billionaire

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Meet The World’s Youngest Self-Made Woman Billionaire


This is 31-year-old Elizabeth Holmes. She dropped out of Stanford when she was 19. Twelve years later, she's a billionaire. She did some regular stuff in between like founding a company and revolutionising medicine. Holmes founded her company, Theranos, with the money she had saved for college. Now, Theranos is worth $9 billion. As owner of half the company, Holmes' worth is estimated at $4.5 billion. This makes her the youngest self-made woman billionaire in the world.



We hope she brings Theranos to India sooner than later. Inspired by her fear of needles and syringes, Holmes patented a new, painless method of blood analysis. Owing to the rising medical costs in the US, Holmes says one of her main concerns was to make blood tests cheaper.

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Theranos does blood tests at a fraction of the market price in the US and without a syringe. It uses a painless method to prick a finger instead of puncturing a vein. Theranos claims it can perform tests on samples as small as 1/1000th of the amount of blood drawn in the usual method. They also claim that more than 30 tests can be performed on a single sample.

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