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Elizabeth Holmes

伊丽莎白•霍姆斯

年龄：31

公司：Theranos

个人净资产估值：45亿美元

和马克•扎克伯格一样，伊丽莎白•霍姆斯为了追求创业梦想也选择了辍学。那时她19岁，在美国常春藤盟校、鼎鼎大名的斯坦福念化学工程专业，才上大学二年级。放弃学业后，她在加州帕罗奥多市成立了开发创新验血方法的公司Theranos，主要启动资金来自父母原本用来供她念大学的学费。

霍姆斯的公司Theranos，可能会给这个市场规模达到730亿美元的医药业带来天翻地覆的变化，目前该公司估值已经达到90亿美元。但最近《华尔街日报》的一篇爆炸性新闻却给Theranos公司带来了麻烦。报道称，该公司夸大其词，其检测并未使用他们宣称独家的指尖验血技术。在回应该报道的质疑时，霍姆斯表示，公司正在等待美国食品药物监督管理局（FDA）批准，今后会“全面”采用独家技术。

Elizabeth Holmes

Age: 31

Company: Theranos

Estimated net worth: $4.5 billion

Like Mark Zuckerberg, Elizabeth Holmes dropped out of an Ivy League university during her sophomore year to pursue her entrepreneurial dreams. At age 19, the ambitious chemical engineering major quit Stanford and bootstrapped Theranos, a revolutionary Palo Alto, Calif.-based blood diagnostics startup, mainly with money her parents saved for her college education.

The now-$9 billion company, poised to upend the $73 billion dollar diagnostics industry, was recently rocked by an explosive Wall Street Journal exposé. The tell-all alleges that Theranos has struggled with and neglected to use its proprietary fingertip-prick blood test technology. Holmes has hit back at the criticism, saying the company is awaiting FDA approval it will “absolutely” get.