Elizabeth Holmes on Revolutionizing Blood Tests

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00:00You founded this company 12 years ago, right?

00:03Tell them how old you were.

00:05I was 19.

00:06I was 9 years old when I wrote this, and it begins,

00:10Dear Daddy, what I want out of life is to discover something new,

00:14something that mankind didn't know was possible.

00:17I also want to study about man and his ways.

00:19Life is really interesting.

00:21I love being with you.

00:23It's my most favorite thing in the whole world.

00:25Love Elizabeth.

00:25I wanted to do something with my life

00:30that people thought was impossible before.

00:34This used to be my advisor's office,

00:37and I would sit here, literally here in the hallway,

00:41waiting for him to come back to his office

00:43to try to convince him to let me into his graduate research program.

00:47And I think I probably spent the equivalent of months

00:51just sitting on the floor here.

00:54My family was amazing.

00:55I'll be grateful all my life.

00:58I called them and informed them that I would be leaving Stanford.

01:01And they let me take the money that they both had saved

01:05working all their lives for my brother and I

01:07to be able to go to college

01:09and put it into starting the company.

01:12We used to come up with concepts of companies

01:15that we would build together when we were, like, two and four

01:19with little stuffed animals or Lego blocks

01:21and all this kind of stuff.

01:22He's always been my very best friend.

01:25The kind of determination that she had from such a young age

01:29around what she wanted to do

01:31and the level of focus that she set that has stayed true for her.

01:35A health care pioneer is being compared to visionaries Bill Gates and Steve Jobs.

01:40Elizabeth Holmes, her mission is to allow blood testing at a fraction of Medicare costs

01:44and made Holmes the world's youngest female self-made billionaire.

01:48We're living in a country in which it's illegal in many states for people to even get access

01:54to their own health information.

01:56This summer, the FDA cleared one of our first finger stick tests

02:00that replaces the need for people to have big vials of blood taken from their arm.

02:06When people get access to their own health information,

02:09they can begin to see the onset of disease in time do something about it.

02:14If a female leader can build a company from nothing to something that impacts people's lives every single day, it's like...

02:21Create a stereotype that little girls can be the best in science and math and engineering.

02:29And I think it starts when you're two and it comes down to, you know, at Christmastime,

02:35are you getting the Barbie dolls or are you getting the Legos?

02:38Our dream for Theranos is that every single day, someone's life is better

02:42because they can afford access to health information they couldn't afford before.

02:47And they begin to get tested in time to improve outcomes.

02:51Elizabeth, if you wrote a book, what would you write on the dedication page?

02:55I would write that it's to the people who've had to say goodbye too soon to people they love.

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