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Elizabeth Holmes Forbes

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AI-generated image mimicking Elizabeth Holmes' Forbes magazine cover
After a lengthy legal process, the judge in her case sentenced her to 11 years in prison in November this year, a much lower sentence than the maximum of 20 years she could face. Holmes' lawyers asked for a more lenient treatment for their client because she is "a well-intentioned businesswoman" and now a mother with a second child on the way.

That defense is one of the keys to how a young woman taiyuan mobile number database with no university education or experience managed to convince titans like George Schultz, Rupert Murdoch or Henry Kissinger to invest in a supposed technological innovation without ever seeing reliable results. Holmes' entire success was based on the construction of her character, on selling herself as "the new Steve Jobs ." A carefully orchestrated fiction from her always black clothing to the imposition of a deep voice that made her sound like a pre-teen trying to get into the movies.

On the other hand, Holmes' fame came hand in hand with the explosion of mainstream feminism: for the millionaire dinosaurs who invested in Theranos, supporting Holmes was a way of feeling progressive without having to challenge the status quo . In fact, Holmes actively promoted this image of herself as a feminist icon, an "iron woman" capable of breaking the glass ceiling. However, the only thing Holmes achieved for female entrepreneurs was to delegitimize them. After the scandal, many find it impossible to obtain financing for their projects. Silicon Valley remains a hostile place for women.
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