Breakthrough technology billionaire Holmes was zilch
US citizens and our compatriots, who like stories about ingenious startups, suffered the tragic news.
Was published a number of official studies medical technology blood test, which sharply rose made herself young billionaire Elizabeth Holmes.
Let us briefly recall: Elizabeth was born in 1984 in an ordinary family of an American diplomat and employee of the U.S. Congress. Despite these cramped conditions, the girl grew up very ambitious and goal-oriented. At 18, she entered medical, 19 left and focused on a startup in a small laboratory. Holmes decided to devote himself to a new technology called “lab-on-chip”, which would take a blood sample from patients not a big needle from the vein and a small needle from the finger – and to analyze the weight of criteria on a much higher level.
Elizabeth had a little help from those of 0.6 million dollars that was given to her parents for the first time, and acquaintance mothers with congressmen, which allowed her to gain investors. The rest she did herself – as befits an advanced girl zero, she declared herself a vegetarian, start drinking fresh celery and wear a black turtleneck.
Soon founded her company Theranos (the origin is from “Theratherapy diagNHS”) was worth 9 billion US dollars, and Holmes was the youngest self-made billionaire by.
The problems started about a year ago, when it became clear that money “Theranos” scored a lot, but most of the technology still “under review”. That is not working. And what actually the company used to test the technology for obtaining the right to work with patients equipment competitors – for example, “Siemens”.
D. Holmes stated that against it there is an information war, and fired a number razboltalsya all this “whistlers” in his company.
In the beginning of last week experts of the School of medicine Icahn in new York conducted an analysis of its own technology Theranos. As it turned out, when using the breakthrough methods Theranos blood test in average by one third oshibochno than traditional methods – in most respects the results are overestimated, and cholesterol, on the contrary, the technology team Holmes almost never sees. As a result, the doctors likely will not treat or not to treat.
D. Holmes stated that against it there is an information war, and it will complain.
And last Thursday was the official published report conducted by the Centers of Medicare and Medicaid in the inspection Theranos.
The result: “proprietary devices blood testing Theranos not meet its own standards of accuracy for most tests. These deficiencies include improper quality control tests, documentation of violations, the use of unskilled personnel for testing and the lack of informing patients of the long time bugs in the tests.”
Especially impressed with the results of the inspection technology called “Edison” that estimated the level of hormones. The results proved to be false in 87% of cases. “The results were as bad as could be”, – said participated in the research associate Professor new York “vail Cornell College” Stephen Master.
…Thus, we are dealing with another technology bubble – in this case 9 billion That is available viewarea Empire. There is an excellent image. There are thousands of publications in women’s glamour about a Girl who Made Herself with the help of celery juice, diligence and a black turtleneck.
Not only the breakthrough technology.
But Holmes is not the only one.
The other day, for example, a senior comrade Holmes on the case of startups the breakthrough Ilona Muscoy was with the pump disconnected “available models of Tesla electric car” cost only 37,000 dollars. For obvious reasons, “affordable” it is only where the state (such as Spain) is actually sponsoring the citizens buy environmentally-friendly electric cars deeply and helps to put charging stations everywhere. How accessible is the model for 2.5 million rubles, which must be recharged every 300 km, in other places of the world – a rhetorical question.
At the moment, Musk is selling about 50 thousand cars per year Tesla is that, at the total sales of new cars in the world at $ 90 million annually just nothing. The total losses amounted to Tesla in the past year more than 800 000 000 dollars.
As for another breakthrough startup Mask – returned degrees latest rocket, the Falcon – we recall that more or less correct landing from six starts ended one. The question of whether a degree from this “reusable” and not merely effectively settled, as haven’t been raised.
There is reason to fear that a significant portion of these start-UPS comprising, by the way, a huge GDP, in fact, have the character of hoaxes. Whose function is “to bring the stock market” and smooth out the real statistics of the so-called “global slowdown”.
Victor Marakhovsky
