I remember being told several years ago that a company was figuring out how to run blood tests without having to intravenously draw blood with a needle and I was positively over the moon. I am the kind of person who is hard-to-stick, and blood draws leave me horribly bruised for weeks. 

The company that was promising to solve this problem, Theranos, was a multi-billion dollar company that was rolling out their new technology in my home state. Unfortunately, that multi-billion dollar company is worth less than zero now, and the technology never existed. Today, I am going to tell you the story of Elizabeth Holmes and a scandal on an international scale that is truly mind-blowing.