What’s up, Holmies?
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Elizabeth Holmes, disgraced founder and former CEO of the defunct health care technology company Theranos, once upon a time the youngest self-made billionaire woman in U.S. history, is standing trial on conspiracy and wire fraud charges that could send her to prison for 20 years.
She’s also become a very strange and unlikely icon. From The Guardian:
There are posters, stickers and coffee mugs, flags, T-shirts and masks—all celebrating Silicon Valley “girl boss,” Elizabeth Holmes.
The fraud case of the Theranos founder has given way to a burgeoning cottage industry for merchandise venerating the disgraced CEO.
As Holmes stands trial in a California courthouse, hundreds of listings have sprung up across online marketplaces including Etsy and Redbubble, catering to “Holmies” – the name used by some followers of the former executive.
One shop called “We Are Elizabeth Holmes” has 26 products sporting original designs of the founder’s stenciled image. Some feature a favorite quote of Holmes: “Fi…
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