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November 19, 2022

Theranos’s Elizabeth Holmes jailed for 11 years: How have diagnostics startups been affected?

Has investor scepticism been overplayed?


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Elizabeth Holmes, the founder of bogus blood testing startup Theranos, has been sentenced to over 11 years in prison for defrauding investors. 

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Kai Nicol-Schwarz

Kai Nicol-Schwarz was a senior reporter at Sifted. He covered AI and UK tech.

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