Elizabeth Holmes has said she is working on new healthcare-related inventions and will continue to do so behind bars in a new interview following a high-profile trial in which she was convicted and jailed on fraud charges.
In an interview with The New York TimesThe former CEO of Theranos admitted to making “a lot of mistakes.”
“I made so many mistakes and there were so many things I didn’t know or understand, and I feel like when you do it wrong, it’s like you really internalize it in a deep way,” Holmes told the newspaper.
“I still dream of being able to contribute in that space. “I still feel the same calling that I always felt and I still think that the need is there.”
The interview has suffer violent reactions on social networks and The New York Times has been accused of offering the former CEO, convicted on multiple counts of defrauding investors in her blood-testing startup, a chance to beautify your image Through the interview.
In the interview, Holmes admitted that she made appearances during her time at Theranos to be taken seriously.
“I thought that then I would be good at business and that they would take me seriously and not as a little girl or a girl who didn’t have good technical ideas,” she said.
“Maybe people realized that wasn’t authentic, since it wasn’t authentic.”
Early last month, Holmes delayed the start of his prison sentence for defrauding Silicon Valley investors by filing another appeal of his conviction.
She was due to report to a prison camp on April 27 to begin the 11.25-year sentence imposed after a jury found her guilty of multiple charges related to her fraudulent initiation of blood tests.
His lawyers informed US District Judge Edward Dávila that, instead of going to prison, he appealed a decision he made in early April ordering him to begin his sentence.
Holmes, 39, has two young children, the first of whom was born before his 2021 fraud trial and the second of whom was born after his sentencing in November. She was found guilty in January 2022 on four of 11 counts of defrauding Theranos investors of more than $100 million.
Holmes founded Theranos after dropping out of Stanford University at age 19, but the company collapsed in 2018 after it was revealed that its technology was broken.
