A drop of blood worth 60 billion female version of jobs set up an amazing scam
4hw.com.cn: she used a drop of blood to create a $60 billion scam. The beautiful girl in a black high collar shirt and black silk jacket is today's story protagonist - Elizabeth & middot; Sherlock Holmes.
In 2003, at the age of 19 and just a sophomore, she dropped out of Stanford University and started a technology company called 'theranos' after borrowing everywhere.
Theranos's core technology is known as: you can collect a drop of blood from your finger and directly detect hundreds of diseases in your blood. This invention will save millions of lives in the future. It is a great invention that can 'change the world'.
The detection methods may be as follows:
Put the blood from your fingertips in a nano container and put it in a tester called Edison.
Then the machine will analyze your blood and detect whether you have any diseases.
No, more than 200 blood indicators can be detected in such a simple process,
It's like the technology of science fiction movies!
Theranos said its test results could be obtained as soon as four hours.
In addition, the price of testing is also quite cheap, less than half of the standard fee for going to the hospital.
If we make full use of the company's blood test technology, we will save $9.8 billion in medical insurance and $104 billion in medical subsidies in the next 10 years.
What does that mean?
This means that in the future, the scene of hospital queuing will become history, expand the field of medicine and benefit mankind & hellip;
So with this' great project + top team ',
Elizabeth Holmes not only received the full support of leaders from all walks of life,
Before the age of 30, she was directly included in the Forbes list of the world's youngest rich women.
The former Secretary of state held a birthday party for her;
Take a group photo with political and business leaders of various countries;
Tim Draper and Steve Jurvetson invested in her,
Mark & middot; Anderson called her 'the next jobs.'
She appeared on magazine covers, on TV programs, and as a keynote speaker at science and technology conferences.
When she sat with Ma Yun and Clinton,
Clinton is just like admiring her neighbor's lovely daughter:
'tell everyone, how old were you when you started your own company? '
She said shyly, 'I'm only 19.'
She was invited by the major television media in turn--
CNN, USA today, fox business channel, CBS, NPR, CNBC & hellip& hellip;
It seems that people like genius stories, especially in places like Silicon Valley, where miracles happen all the time.
Everyone is optimistic about her and thinks she will be a miracle who can change the future of medicine.
In the process, she accumulated 4 billion assets.
By 2015, the market value of the company was US $9 billion, about RMB 60 billion.
But less than half a year later, the company and Miss Elizabeth collapsed.
The so-called big trees attract the wind,
While Elizabeth enjoys more and more exposure to bring benefits to herself, she also bears the risk of being exposed at any time.
Although within the company,
Elizabeth has been blocking information, strictly guarding against it, and prohibiting employees from disclosing any information.
So over the years, some sporadic negative news has been avoided by Elizabeth.
The reason is that Er Gouzi from the village, ah no, is a reporter who has the courage to verify.
In October 2015, John carreyrou, a reporter of the Wall Street Journal who won two Pulitzer Prizes, wrote a report exposing that there were serious deviations in the test results of the 'Edison' blood test instrument of theranos company.
In fact, the Wall Street Journal is not the only organization that raises questions,
But the evidence is more detailed.
Later, the Wall Street Journal published an article saying:
Theranos applied its own technology in only one of 240 tests.
The FDA (food and Drug Administration) issued two reports with document code 483, which stated:
Theranos found problems in many inspections and asked the company to stop using 'Edison' equipment for testing.
According to an internal email exposed by an anonymous employee,
'Edison' only handled 15 of theranos's 200 testing items. In 2014, the number of tests was less than 10% of the total number, and the remaining 90% used traditional instruments.
In this way, Edison maintained the high accuracy of its surface,
It also deceived the annual routine test of the American medical insurance and medical assistance service center (CMS).
Theranos denied the authenticity of the report on various occasions in an attempt to restore his reputation.
Holmes expressed his shock and incomprehension over the rumor on TV and said:
'if you want to do something great, someone will stand up and obstruct you.'
A few days later, October 15, 2015, a day Elizabeth will never forget.
That day, the front page of the Wall Street Journal published an article: "a prized startup & rsquo; s struggles.".
This is a mild title, but it is wrapped in destructive content--
Caryo blew up the dark side of theranos. The media blew the pot in an instant.
The media such as fortune, Forbes and the new Yorker, which once held her as the Pearl of their eyes, began to defecte one after another.
She once touted the so-called technology, the so-called change the world, the so-called blood test--
It is to use other people's machines, draw blood from the old-fashioned veins of the hospital, and send unreliable test results to the people after express delivery.
When the investor came to visit, she demonstrated how to test the blood--
It's just a video edited and recorded in advance. It's just played again on the screen. It's not a real-time image at all.
She showed investors the test data on the PPT--
In fact, it is done on the bought machines. None of them is a 'home' machine.
Secret violence, defeat is settled.
All the anger and confidence are like funny performances before the curtain falls.
On September 5, 2018, the diagnosis and treatment company announced its formal dissolution,
A company known as being able to change the world disappeared in an instant.
Her ambition is too big and greedy, but she doesn't have enough strength to support it,
The first half can deceive countless people. She painted a big cake too beautiful,
But changing the world is not just talking after all.
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