My father did a lot of disaster relief work, and he was always in places where there was a lot of pain.
From Elizabeth Holmes
When I thought about having the greatest impact with my life, I thought about all the times people lose loved ones because diseases weren't detected early enough. I thought, 'I can play a role there.'
Too often you see someone fall, break a rib, go in to the doctor and discover a tumor.
Today, blood work and science are able to provide more of a movie of your health, identifying trends before they become an issue.
I think a lot of young people have incredible ideas and incredible insights, but sometimes they wait before they go give their life to something. What I did was just to start a little earlier.
I really believe that if we were from another planet, and we sat down to put our heads together on torture experiments, the concept of sticking a needle into someone and sucking their blood out would probably qualify as a pretty good one.
Thernos 1.0 is an external point-of-care BlackBerry.
I love adventures.
What I really want out of life is to discover something new: something mankind didn't know was possible to do.
At a relatively early age, I began to believe that building a business was perhaps the greatest opportunity for making an impact, because it's a tool for making a change in the world.
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