Bill Clinton even said that “the future will be shaped by people” as Elizabeth Holmes. It is this woman who invented Theranos, a new blood test that is more precise, faster and uses only a few drops. A medical revolution that ended in fraud. Other prodigies like Charlie Javice also invented a future that wasn’t real, and others played God and ended up becoming a demon, like Martin Shkreli.
Just like Holmes, Charlie Javice He appeared in the media when he was less than 30 years old and had a revolutionary invention under his arm. In his case, it was Frank, a miraculous online manager, ideal for students, who managed his taxes and scholarships in four minutes “just by taking a photo.”
Javice sold his business to J.P. Morgan For $175 million and she automatically became an executive of the banking giant, but when it was revealed that Frank’s parameters were falsified, the young woman was fired and today faces a fraud complaint for which she is sentenced to 30 years from prison.
Holmes was sentenced to 11 years in prison for defrauding investors, a crime committed by another inventor, Trevor Milton. In this case, we’re talking about someone not so young – he’s on Forbes’ “under 40” list – but he brought with him a revolution in transportation. Milton theoretically invented the first truck running 100% on hydrogen.
The fraud was discovered after the pandemic, and also after receiving aid due to the paralysis of activity due to COVID-19, but these are not the causes of its failure. He was sentenced to four years in prison for defrauding investors because he never made the progress he talked about in that truck.
Martin Shkreli He is considered a “financial criminal” and at the time was dubbed by the media as “the most hated man in America”. Shkreli’s sin was speculation to the point of fraud with Daraprim, a medicine used to treat malaria. He was fined $1 million and sentenced to six years in prison for causing the price to skyrocket 4,000 percent, making something very necessary prohibitive.
Obinwanne Okeke He was another one of those prodigy millionaires who appeared in one of the versions of Forbes magazine “30 under 30”, in this case in Nigeria. Okeke was considered a business genius, but it was later discovered that he had used a scheme to engage in “phishing,” email theft, and steal $11 million. He was sentenced to 10 years in prison in the United States.
These are some of the prodigies who were hailed by the financial press, such as the prestigious Forbes magazine, but who ended up remaining on the bench. Five little-known names following the recently convicted man Sam Bankman-Friedthe mastermind who built the crypto platform FTX, who has just been sentenced to 25 years in prison for his responsibility in the bankruptcy of the company and the theft of 8 billion dollars from its customers.