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The Dropout When Elizabeth Holmes was asked as a child what she wanted to be when she grew up, she was unequivocal: “I want to be a billionaire.” She got her wish – for a little while at least. At the tender age of 19 she dropped out of university to concentrate on her Silicon Valley start-up and was soon being lauded as ‘the next Steve Jobs’. It was a comparison that pleased her no end. She idolised the Apple founder, and emulated his look by wearing black turtlenecks. The Dropout podcast traces Elizabeth’s meteoric rise – at the height of her success she was valued at $6.6 billion and lauded as the world’s youngest self-made female entrepreneur – and her rather spectacular fall: her fortune is now zero and…

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