Trivias Of Elizabeth Holmes
- Her father was a vice president at Enron, an energy company that later went bankrupt after an accounting fraud scandal.
- Her mother worked as a Congressional committee staffer.
- Holmes described her fear of needles as a motivation and sought to perform blood tests using only small amounts of blood.
- Holmes was an admirer of Apple founder Steve Jobs and deliberately copied his style, frequently dressing in a black turtleneck sweater, as Jobs did.
- She spoke in a deep baritone voice during most of her public appearances.
- She appeared on the covers of Fortune, Forbes, T: The New York Times Style Magazine, and Inc.
- At its height in 2015, Theranos had more than 800 employees.
- The rise and dissolution of her company, and the subsequent fallout were the subject of an HBO documentary feature film, The Inventor: Out for Blood in Silicon Valley.
- In 2015, she was appointed a member of the Harvard Medical School Board of Fellows.
- In 2015, she was named one of TIME magazine's Most Influential People in the World.
- Forbes awarded her the Under 30 Doers Award and ranked on its 2015 lists of the Most Powerful Women in 2015.
- She received an Honorary Doctor of Humane Letters degree from Pepperdine University.
