160. Elizabeth Holmes and Tulip Mania

Hayley tells the story of Elizabeth Holmes, the youngest self-made billionaire and inventor of 3 Edison machines in a trenchcoat. Elizabeth’s blood analyzing technology was supposed to make the impossible possible. Only it really was impossible- if only someone had told her that. Then, Kat explains how tulip bulbs were the 17th century’s version of turnips in animal crossing. Only, this was real life, and people spent their life savings on flowers.

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Elizabeth Holmes Sources:

In His Own Words: The Theranos Whistleblower

https://youtu.be/9wf_2KYRPWQ

The rise and fall of Elizabeth Holmes, the former Theranos CEO found guilty of wire fraud and conspiracy who will head to prison this month after losing her bid to remain free during appeal

Avery Hartmans

https://www.businessinsider.com/theranos-founder-ceo-elizabeth-holmes-life-story-bio-2018-4

The rise and fall of Theranos, the blood-testing startup that went from Silicon Valley darling to facing fraud charges

Pflanzer

https://www.businessinsider.com/the-history-of-silicon-valley-unicorn-theranos-and-ceo-elizabeth-holmes-2018-5#but-holmes-was-not-deterred-holmes-went-on-to-drop-out-of-stanford-university-in-2003-at-the-age-of-19-to-start-theranos-which-was-then-called-real-time-cures-she-was-inspired-both-by-her-grandfathers-medical-career-and-her-summer-2003-internship-at-the-genome-institute-of-singapore-2

Elizabeth Holmes returns to court in bid to avoid prison

Liedtke

https://apnews.com/article/elizabeth-holmes-theranos-fraud-prison-sentence-754b44bc47eb200f032b75f45969cb07

Elizabeth Holmes

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Elizabeth_Holmes

 

Tulip Mania Sources: 

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Tulip_mania

https://www.smithsonianmag.com/history/there-never-was-real-tulip-fever-180964915/

https://www.history.com/news/tulip-mania-financial-crash-holland

https://interestingengineering.com/culture/history-of-the-tulip-from-turkish-love-affair-to-dutch-tulipmania-obsession