She checked a lot of boxes in that regard, and she knew it, and she worked it, and she worked it all the way to the slammer.

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I'm Bridget Todd, and this is There Are No Girls on the Internet. I'm Bridget Todd, and this is There Are No Girls on the Internet.

You probably know the story of Elizabeth Holes.

The scrappy, deep-voiced, Stanford Dropout, who used her college money to start

Theranos, a company that promised to disrupt blood testing

with the use of a device capable of screening for everything from cancer to AIDS with a single

drop of blood. She even had a pithy little story about how she was inspired to start Theranos

because she was afraid of needles and couldn't stand to let a little prick to draw her blood

be stronger than she was.

Honestly, it's kind of a great story, and it worked.

In 2014, Forbes named Elizabeth Holmes the world's youngest self-made female billionaire.

And by that time, Theranos had raised over $400 million in venture capital and was estimated to be worth billions.

But it was, of course, all a scam.

Theranos' devices could never test blood.

Elizabeth Holmes and her former partner, C.O. Sunny Balwani played everyone.

Wealthy investors and board members, including Rupert Murdoch, former Secretary of Education Bessie DeVos, and former Secretary of State

Henry Kissinger, the retail pharmacies meant to house the devices, and most importantly,

the patients, like the mother with a history of miscarriages,

who Theranos devices wrongly told that she would never be able to have a baby.

Someone given a false HIV diagnosis,

who then had to wait months until they could afford a follow-up test.

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