THE LADY WHO IDENTIFIED HER QUESTION AT 9

Meet the World Youngest Self made Female Billionaire

ELIZABETH HOLMES with a net worth of $4.6 billion

Ever heard of Theranos????? Well, I never heard until I read, and what’s fascinating is that its founded by a young female Stanford drop out, yeah! female drop out (what is it with all these drop outs, they seem to do better #justthinkingoutloud ). Theranos is an invention that enables the collection of blood samples without the use of big syringes. With Theranos, a drop is all you need.


Her name is Elizabeth Holmes. At the age of 9, Holmes wrote a letter to her father: "What I really want out of life is to discover something new, something that mankind didn't know was possible to do.", and in 2003, at the age of 19, she got into Stanford University to study Chemical Engineering. In her freshman year, she was named one of the President’s Scholars, and was given a stipend of $3000 to pursue a research project and that was the beginning of her breakthrough.

Within a year she had filed a patent application for "Medical device for analyte monitoring and drug delivery," a wearable device that monitored patients' blood and administrated medicine. As a sophomore, Holmes went to one of her professors, Channing Robertson, and told him: "Let's start a company." With his blessing, she founded Real-Time Cures, later changing the company's name to Theranos (a word coined from therapy and diagnosis). She dropped out of Stanford a semester later, working on Theranos in the basement of a college house full time. Professor Robertson served as a director of the company.

Holmes, holding up the her invention. Theranos

Today, Theranos is a $9 billion biotech company that has a new approach to blood testing with the goal is to make clinical testing cheaper and faster.

Holmes doesn't own a TV and states she works every day from the time she wakes up until she goes to sleep. She says that "What matters is how well we do in trying to make people's lives better. That's why I'm doing this. That's why I work the way that I work. And that's why I love what I'm doing so much." 

What matters the most is that we discover why we were sent here. Everyone is an answer to a particular question. How well are you working to get your own question answered?

The great Elizabeth Holmes