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Sweet-Faced Scammer

A new HBO documentary paints Silicon Valley fraudster Elizabeth Holmes as one of the most fascinating white-collar criminals in history

Helmi Yusof

Published Thu, Apr 11, 2019 · 09:50 PM

Startups

ELIZABETH HOLMES BELIEVED in faking it till you make it. She fooled so many investors for so long that, at the height of her deception, her US biotech startup Theranos was worth US$9 billion. Forbes described her as the world's youngest self-made female billionaire and placed her at No. 121 on its Forbes 400 list of 2015.

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