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How Elizabeth Holmes fooled the world’s wealthiest men

How Elizabeth Holmes fooled the world’s wealthiest men

With her manufactured voice and undeniable charisma, the Silicon Valley billionaire managed to dupe tycoons, politicians and even Henry Kissinger.

At first glance, the astonishing rise and fall of Elizabeth Holmes – the Silicon Valley entrepreneur turned fraudster now facing decades in jail – seems merely a tale of technological hubris.

Yet, the story of how one young woman bamboozled and bewitched America’s great and good as she propelled the empty promise of her blood-testing company from nothing to a valuation of $9 billion is so much more.

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