Elizabeth Holmes, the youngest billionaire in the world

Elizabeth Holmes, an American of 31 years, born in Washington DC in 1984, is now the youngest billionaire in the world.

Her fortune is estimated at more than $4.5 billion. According to Forbes magazine, Elizabeth Holmes became the youngest billionaire in the world in 2015 and the 110th richest man in the United States. It even reached the 360th position of the richest people on the planet. All this, just 31 years.
How is it managed ? She is the founder and CEO of Theranos, a US company specializing in health and medical laboratory services. From Stanford's benches where she studied chemistry at her internship in Singapore to develop new care procedures, it has built over time a "method Holmes". 
Elizabeth Holmes was born in february 1984 in Washington DC, in the heart of an influential family. As proof, his father Christian IV Holmes was setting in government agencies (USAID), her mother, Noel Anne, a member of Congress, and one of his ancestors, founder of the Fleischmann's yeast company. Child, Elizabeth is already passionate. First, by his great-grand-father, Christian R. Holmes, an american hero of the First World War but also a surgeon, engineer and inventor. This man is a true source of inspiration for her. Born in Denmark in 1857, Christian R. Holmes became the dean of the Medical University of Cincinnati. Today, an hospital named after him. It's like this, dreaming of a similar fate, Elizabeth enrolled in medicine a few years later.
In 2002, the young woman only 18 opens door to Stanford University to study chemistry. In the first year, she gets noted. It was top of his class and received a $3,000 scholarship to pursue a research project with the professor of chemical engineering, Channing Robertson.
Elizabeth then goes on internship at the Genome Institute of Singapore where she studied the development of new methods to detect the coronavirus in blood. On his return to the United States, while Elizabeth was only in the second year, the woman believes to have found a revolutionary idea: a portable chip, a patch that would help administer medication, monitor variables in the blood of the patient and adjust the dose to achieve the desired effect. She filed a patent in september 2003. The company Theranos was born.

Initially, Elizabeth worked in Stanford basements. It develops her ideas, gathers her datas, even tries to continue his studies. In vain. A semester later, she left college to pursue his full-time career. Her research professor, Robertson follows her and became director of the Theranos society. 
In just a decade, in 2014, the company has 500 employees and has filed 18 patents. Elizabeth Holmes has managed to retain control over 50% stake in her company with a turnover in excess of $9 billion today. The young woman from Washington DC, admiring his great-grand-father, has created her own destiny. An empire.


Source : Paris Match