Elizabeth Holmes leaves court

 

Theranos founder Elizabeth Holmes leaves the Robert F. Peckham US Courthouse with her mother Noel Holmes during her trial in San Jose, California. Reuters/Brittany Hosea

 

Theranos’s business model was based around the idea that it ran blood tests using technology that required only a tiny blood sample from a pinprick of your finger. She said the tests would be able to detect medical conditions like cancer and high cholesterol.  She took investors’ money on the condition that she wouldn’t have to reveal how the technology worked. Plus, she would have final say over everything having to do with the company.