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Elizabeth Holmes was born into a well-connected family and quickly realized her aspiration to become a billionaire. At 18, during a trip to China, she met Sunny, a successful entrepreneur from Pakistan, sparking a relationship that would become crucial to Theranos's history. Desiring to innovate in the wake of witnessing the SARS epidemic, she concocted the initial idea for a wearable medical device capable of continuously monitoring blood. Dropping out of Stanford at 19, she ventured into the startup world, fueled by an early investment from a neighbor.