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  • Elizabeth Holmes: I'm Elizabeth Holmes;

  • I'm the founder and CEO of Theranos

  • Our work is in being able to realize a healthcare

  • paradigm around early detection, prevention,

  • and consumer empowerment, and in making it possible

  • to do laboratory testing in a highly accessible way,

  • which means tiny samples instead of big tubes

  • of blood from your arm and incredibly low prices.

  • Our belief is that every person, no matter where

  • they live or how much money they have, has the basic

  • human right to access to their own health information.

  • And so our mission, our dream, is to make it possible not

  • just in this country but globally for people everywhere

  • to begin to have access to this information so that

  • they can use it to live their best lives and to catch

  • the onset of disease in time to do something about it.

  • I think the opportunity to try to connect with especially

  • women and young girls and developing economies around

  • what, only because of this country, I've been

  • able to do -- which is, as a young girl, start

  • a business, drop out of school, and try to make

  • a difference in the world is both something that

  • I feel a great obligation to do and something that I want

  • very much to do because I've been able to benefit from it.

  • In the same way as I've always seen technology

  • as a tool for being able to realize policy changes,

  • there's the opportunity to use a vehicle like this

  • to be able to engage with, for example, the women and girls,

  • and show it's possible.

  • And I've always thought about it sort of as the four-minute

  • mile where, once one person does it, everybody

  • else does too.

  • And that's something that is so important,

  • especially in these areas where we need

  • people to know that they can stand up.

Elizabeth Holmes: I'm Elizabeth Holmes;

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