PROLOGUE“Elizabeth called me this morning”: Email with the subject line “Message from
Elizabeth” sent by Tim Kemp to his team at 10:46 a.m. PST on November 17,
2006.
His expert testimony: Simon Firth, “The Not-So-Retiring Retirement of Channing
Robertson,” Stanford School of Engineering website, February 28, 2012.
By any measure, it was a resounding success: VC Experts report on Theranos Inc.
created on December 28, 2015.
A slide deck listed six deals: PowerPoint titled “Theranos: A Presentation for
Investors” dated June 1, 2006.
- A PURPOSEFUL LIFE
When she was seven: Ken Auletta, “Blood, Simpler,” New Yorker, December 15,
2014.
On her father’s side: P. Christiaan Klieger, The Fleischmann Yeast Family
(Charleston: Arcadia Publishing, 2004), 9.
Aided by the political and business connections: Ibid., 49.
So the case could be made: Sally Smith Hughes, interview of Donald L. Lucas for an
oral history titled “Early Bay Area Venture Capitalists: Shaping the Economic
and Business Landscape,” Bancroft Library, University of California, Berkeley,
2010.
Her father was a West Point graduate: Obituary of George Arlington Daoust Jr.,
Washington Post, October 8, 2004.
“I grew up with those stories”: Auletta, “Blood, Simpler.”
Midway through high school: Ibid.
Her father had drilled into her: Roger Parloff, “This CEO Is Out for Blood,”
Fortune, June 12, 2014.
The message Elizabeth took away: Rachel Crane, “She’s America’s Youngest
Female Billionaire—and a Dropout,” CNNMoney website, October 16, 2014.
The experience left her convinced: Parloff, “This CEO Is Out for Blood.”
When she got back home: Ibid.