Diagnosing Theranos

It couldn’t have been easy for Elizabeth Holmes, CEO & founder of the controversial blood test company Theranos, to prepare for an interview with Matt Herper at the Forbes Healthcare Summit. Six months ago, armed with an alliance with Walgreens Boots Alliance, Inc., Theranos seemed like the future of testing and an answer to high-priced laboratory regimes managed by Quest Diagnostics Inc. and Laboratory Corp. of America Holdings. Holmes herself was portrayed as a welcome iconoclast, the disruptor of an entire industry who challenged the system on behalf of American patients and made on behalf of American patients and made herself a billionaire along the way. It's the kind of story Shark Tank America falls in love with.