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the billionaire dropout
http://money.cnn.com/2014/10/16/technology/theranos-elizabeth-holmes/?cid=ob_articlesidebarall&iid=obnetwork
America's youngest self-made female billionaire is 30 years old and a college dropout. The company she founded has the potential to change health care for millions of Americans.
Elizabeth Holmes left Stanford University at 19 with a plan to start her own company. For money, she cashed out the funds her parents had saved for tuition. Now, she counts billionaire Larry Ellison as an investor and has former secretaries of state on her board.
"I think a lot of young people have incredible ideas and incredible insights, but sometimes they wait before they go give their life to something," she said. "What I did was just to start a little earlier."
Holmes, through her company Theranos, has taken on the $76 billion laboratory-diagnostic industry as her target. It's an industry that was just waiting to be disrupted, since blood testing has not changed since the modern clinical lab emerged in the 1960s.
America's youngest self-made female billionaire is 30 years old and a college dropout. The company she founded has the potential to change health care for millions of Americans.
Elizabeth Holmes left Stanford University at 19 with a plan to start her own company. For money, she cashed out the funds her parents had saved for tuition. Now, she counts billionaire Larry Ellison as an investor and has former secretaries of state on her board.
"I think a lot of young people have incredible ideas and incredible insights, but sometimes they wait before they go give their life to something," she said. "What I did was just to start a little earlier."
Holmes, through her company Theranos, has taken on the $76 billion laboratory-diagnostic industry as her target. It's an industry that was just waiting to be disrupted, since blood testing has not changed since the modern clinical lab emerged in the 1960s.
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Re: the billionaire dropout
Yeah I read that yesterday..
But, one thing people forget is that Bill Gates, Zuckerberg and holmes are dropouts but were admitted to Harvard and Stanford.
So they are not dumb.
Marathadi-Saamiyaar- Posts : 17675
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Re: the billionaire dropout
Marathadi-Saamiyaar wrote:
Yeah I read that yesterday..
But, one thing people forget is that Bill Gates, Zuckerberg and holmes are dropouts but were admitted to Harvard and Stanford.
So they are not dumb.
Yup. Join an ivy league school and then drop out to get street cred.
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