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What did Elizabeth Holmes do?

Elizabeth Holmes founded Theranos, a health technology company that claimed it could perform hundreds of medical tests using just a few drops of blood. Holmes promoted the technology to investors, patients, and business partners even though Theranos’s devices couldn’t perform as advertised. The company collapsed after its technology and business practices came under scrutiny.