The billionaire Osamiyah .. Hero of the biggest fraud in America

Jeddah – By Talal Al-Hamoud – The story of a major fraud that lasted 15 years revealed weaknesses in the growing environment of # emerging companies in the US and became a Hollywood film that should be released on 'next year. His hero is Elizabeth Holmes, who has been able to deceive the biggest American businessmen such as Robert Murdoch and George Schultz.

Holmes has exploited the lack of know-how of Silkyon Valey's medical scientists, who has been successful for 15 years in commercializing his scientific idea of ​​a blood test device capable of performing hundreds of tests only at the same time. Help of only one blood spot that can be removed from the fingertip without pain.

Part of the attraction of Holmes is her insistence and her young age, when she was named "the youngest billionaire in history" at age 30, when her market value exceeded $ 9 billion.

But this ghost empire faded after a reporter discovered in 2015 that his claims were unfounded scientifically and had even discovered that he had rigged the results of his tests. To begin the last chapters of his story, which ended up accuse him of fraud and the official closure of his business last September.

The most important part of Holmes' story is his quote from Silicon Valley's genius successes, especially Steve Jobs, who now resemble his black clothes, his high neck and even his famous photo on magazine cover.

At the age of 19, Holmes left the university dormitory to found Theranous, a chemical engineering study, at Stanford, following Bill Gates, who left Harvard to create Microsoft, Steve Jobs, who left Reed College to become the founder of Apple, Zuckerberg, who left Alfred to create Facebook.

All this managed to make everyone believe that she was indeed Steve Jobs' successor to women: was Holmes a victim of her excessive ambition? Or a genius who used his intelligence to lead a major fraud?