https://www.siliconvalley.com/2021/12/17/elizabeth-holmes-trial-theranos-founders-fate-now-in-jurys-hands/ > SAN JOSE — Theranos founder Elizabeth Holmes’ fate is now in the hands of the eight men and four women on the jury in her criminal fraud trial. > Holmes, a Stanford University dropout who founded the defunct Palo Alto blood-testing startup at age 19 in 2003, is charged with allegedly bilking investors out of hundreds of millions of dollars and defrauding patients with false claims that the company’s machines could conduct a full range of tests using just a few drops of blood, when she knew the technology had serious accuracy problems.