Building a better world for my two children. Inventor. Founder and former CEO @Theranos Mostly my words, posted by others

Bryan Federal Prison Camp
Joined July 2013
You may be confusing me with tech entrepreneurs who cash out and walk away wealthy.  I didn't.  I never sold a share despite all the opportunities to do so. Never enriched myself. I gave everything I had to our company, to seeing our mission through, down to the last second it lived.  What I have to give is blood, sweat, and tears. And from the torment of my fight over the last ten years, and indomitable fire in me to realize our vision for affordable, accessible healthcare, to realize change. I want to serve our country.  Pain stokes a fire that cannot be extinguished. As I've endured the violence of this journey, I have studied relentlessly over the past eight years. I have studied and studied profound learnings from my failures. And I have studied and researched technology developments, incessantly - in sensors, drug delivery, drug development, and AI. All for this moment. This moment in which AI is rewriting the rules of diagnostics, drug discovery, and patient care, and the policy decisions we make will determine whether that transformation lowers costs and expands access, makes America Healthy again, or simply concentrates profits. This is the moment that will define our country's leadership in AI and in healthcare. This moment in which innovation is pivotal to curbing healthcare costs, and building a world in which no one has to say goodbye too soon to those they love because we don't catch disease in time.  Theranos challenged the profit center of Big Healthcare - an industry that refuses to change, because change means loss of profits. But they did not kill our dream. Prosecutors attacked our innovations. But failure is part of creating future worlds. And now more than ever we must innovate.  For fifteen years I worked 20 hour days, 7 days a week, often living and sleeping in the office. I never took a sick day. I never took a vacation away from work. I know how to give all I have in me to a mission. Now that drive is ignited by the pain of having been ripped from my babies, and the love of my life, in the fight to prove my innocence. By my promise to build a better world for them out of this.  I want to serve our country. I want to apply the thousand lessons burned into me. I want to help us lead as innovators in healthcare. I want to ensure the dream of affordable, accessible healthcare becomes true in a world of AI for all Americans.
Replying to @ElizabethHolmes
have you considered donating to a special project... like say a ballroom?
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Today I go to the first graduation ceremony I've been to in a long time. I graduated high school, left Stanford to build Theranos, got my honorary doctorate, and now walk for the Law Apprenticeship I completed. The symbolism of doing so for Constitutional law studies while held in a prison, fighting to prove my innocence, is radiating through me today. There is no greater way I know to protect liberty than to defend our Constitution when it is trampled upon.
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Elizabeth Holmes remains incarcerated at Federal Prison Camp Bryan, Texas, with no public graduation ceremony reported. Her fraud conviction was upheld on appeal; the attached image depicts no real event. pagesix.com/2026/09/17/cel… latimes.com/business/story…
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More here.
You may be confusing me with tech entrepreneurs who cash out and walk away wealthy.  I didn't.  I never sold a share despite all the opportunities to do so. Never enriched myself. I gave everything I had to our company, to seeing our mission through, down to the last second it lived.  What I have to give is blood, sweat, and tears. And from the torment of my fight over the last ten years, and indomitable fire in me to realize our vision for affordable, accessible healthcare, to realize change. I want to serve our country.  Pain stokes a fire that cannot be extinguished. As I've endured the violence of this journey, I have studied relentlessly over the past eight years. I have studied and studied profound learnings from my failures. And I have studied and researched technology developments, incessantly - in sensors, drug delivery, drug development, and AI. All for this moment. This moment in which AI is rewriting the rules of diagnostics, drug discovery, and patient care, and the policy decisions we make will determine whether that transformation lowers costs and expands access, makes America Healthy again, or simply concentrates profits. This is the moment that will define our country's leadership in AI and in healthcare. This moment in which innovation is pivotal to curbing healthcare costs, and building a world in which no one has to say goodbye too soon to those they love because we don't catch disease in time.  Theranos challenged the profit center of Big Healthcare - an industry that refuses to change, because change means loss of profits. But they did not kill our dream. Prosecutors attacked our innovations. But failure is part of creating future worlds. And now more than ever we must innovate.  For fifteen years I worked 20 hour days, 7 days a week, often living and sleeping in the office. I never took a sick day. I never took a vacation away from work. I know how to give all I have in me to a mission. Now that drive is ignited by the pain of having been ripped from my babies, and the love of my life, in the fight to prove my innocence. By my promise to build a better world for them out of this.  I want to serve our country. I want to apply the thousand lessons burned into me. I want to help us lead as innovators in healthcare. I want to ensure the dream of affordable, accessible healthcare becomes true in a world of AI for all Americans.
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AI lab leaks are about to take on a whole new meaning. “We still haven’t figured out how to reliably contain our software, but trust us with the physical containment of weaponized / engineered pathogens.” Anyway, how much allocation do you want in the IPO?
ANTHROPIC BUILDS BIOLOGY LAB TO PUSH AI INTO DRUG DEVELOPMENT Anthropic has quietly established a Bay Area wet lab, moving its life-sciences ambitions beyond computer simulations and into physical biological experiments. The company wants Claude to direct laboratory robots with limited human intervention, potentially accelerating research into rare and traditionally “undruggable” diseases. Anthropic says it will focus on preclinical research rather than clinical trials, avoiding direct competition with pharmaceutical companies.
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The answer to every challenge lies in your heart.
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Fyi for context, this photo is from 2019....
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I can't believe this was nearly a year ago. I haven't stopped writing.
847 Days in Prison 2,989 Letters to Billy and my kids I pour my heart out on those pages. They are my love my pain and my dreams. Should I share a few of them?
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Elizabeth Holmes Reg. No. 24965-111 PO BOX 2149 FPC BRYAN FEDERAL PRISON CAMP BRYAN, TX 77805-2149 United States
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Deeply grateful for everyone who has stood by me, spoken up for me, and shown me kindness. It means more than I can say, and I will never forget it.
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She apparently wrote an article too. Looks like my friends are talking to her .... jessicareedkraus.substack.co…
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Elizabeth Holmes retweeted
It is time to rebuild the Twin Towers. Never forget, never surrender.
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In the early morning, I dissolved nightmares in love.
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Elizabeth Holmes retweeted
The postpartum never ended. Every night in this cell, I bundle my sweatshirt against my chest and hold it where my children once fit perfectly. Their heads beneath my chin, their breath warm. Their tiny bodies rising and falling against mine through all those sleepless nights. Now, all I have is fabric. It is the only way I can sleep. This sweatshirt pressed to my chest, pretending to be the weight of them...
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I'm always being real.
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Sometimes I genuinely can’t tell whether I’m under caffeinated or over caffeinated. My solution is usually to have another cup of coffee and see what happens. Not a great diagnostic.
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I get asked nearly every day what I’m going to do when I’m free. The answer is simple: Be the best mom in the world. I’ve missed enough. I am not to miss another minute.
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Don't trust anyone who tells you: "We will keep you safe." Those words may go down as some of the most dangerous and disingenuous words ever spoken.
Artificial superintelligence would risk the security, freedom, and lives of Americans. Bernie Sanders and I are introducing a bill to ban it.
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"the nine most terrifying words in the English language are: I'm from the Government, and I'm here to help."
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