- Born
- Birth nameElizabeth Anne Holmes
- Nickname
- Liz
- Height5′ 6½″ (1.69 m)
- Elizabeth Holmes was born on February 3, 1984 in Washington, District of Columbia, USA.
- ChildrenWilliam Holmes Evans
- Always wears a black turtleneck in tribute to Steve Jobs
- Dresses entirely in black
- Known for her intense, unblinking gaze
- deep voice
- She is known for her deep, husky speaking voice, though several journalists and past colleagues claim it is an affectation, and her real speaking voice is much higher. A 2005 appearance on NPR has Holmes speaking in a much higher voice.
- [October 2015] The Wall Street Journal published an investigation of Theranos by John Carreyrou alleging that only 15 of the 240 tests Theranos offers are conducted on the company's signature Edison machines, and that its lab test results were sometimes inaccurate.
- While still in high school, Holmes completed three college Mandarin courses and sold C compilers to Chinese universities.
- Holmes wears a daily "uniform" of a black suit with a black cotton turtleneck.
- Holmes met Sunny Balwani, who would later become her company's COO, in Beijing the summer after her senior year of high school, during the time he was getting his MBA from Berkeley.
- I definitely am afraid of needles. It's the only thing that actually scares me.
- Anywhere from 40% to 60% of people, when they're given a requisition by a doctor to go get tested, don't, because they're scared of needles or the locations are inconvenient or the cost is too high. And if you're not even getting tested, how is it possible that we're going to move toward an era of preventive medicine?
- The right to protect the health and well-being of every person, of those we love, is a basic human right.
- It drives me crazy when people talk about the scale as an indicator of health, because your weight doesn't tell you what's going on at a biochemical level.
- Thernos 1.0 is an external point-of-care BlackBerry.
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