‘People wanted to believe the fairytale’: the downfall of Elizabeth Holmes

Disgraced founder of fraudulent blood-testing company Theranos begins prison sentence

• Theranos founder Elizabeth Holmes begins 11-year sentence

Elizabeth Holmes has begun her prison sentence, in a remarkable fall for a startup founder who had become an icon known far outside Silicon Valley.

Holmes, 39, had once promised to revolutionize the medical world, but was convicted in January 2022 on four counts of defrauding investors in her blood-testing company, Theranos.