![]() ![]() As such, it’s ripe for disruption – that key SV word. Her story was straight out of the Silicon Valley playbook: blood testing is a $75bn (£56bn) market, which is certain to keep growing as medical science advances and is dominated by a few big, dozy companies. ![]() ![]() Holmes’s big idea was for a way to perform multiple tests at once on a tiny drop of blood, and to deliver the results wirelessly to doctors. Then one day she drops into his office to tell him that she’s dropping out of college because she has a “big idea” and wants to found a company that will revolutionise a huge part of the healthcare system – the market for blood testing services. In her first year as an undergraduate she persuades her professor to allow her to attend the seminars he runs with his PhD students. A smart, attractive 19-year-old American woman who has taught herself Mandarin while in high school is studying chemical engineering at Stanford, where she is a president’s scholar. I t’s a quintessential Silicon Valley story. ![]()
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