Chapter
6
Ambition&Alignment
Elizabeth Holmes was Silicon Valley’s rising star, the homecoming queen everyone wanted a piece of. Her fascination with being the next Steve Jobs ran so deep she even dressed like Jobs in a classic, black turtleneck. Adorning magazine covers as a revolutionary, she paraded across the event circuit hailed as the next iconic entrepreneur. She had a legion of fans hanging on her every word; a Rolodex of cultural titans anyone would foam at the mouth for.
In other words, she was on a rocket ship to success.
She couldn’t—and would never—be stopped. Her company, Theranos, was a disruptive start-up destined to take over the world of pharmaceutical lab testing.1
The company had cracked the code on a breathtaking technology ...
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