2. Elizabeth Holmes
She’s blonde, she’s ruthless, and she’s baritone (well, allegedly). She’s the unforgettable Elizabeth Holmes. You probably know her story well: she convinced much of the world that she had pioneered some sort of paradigm-shifting blood testing technology and managed to amass a megaton of investment and gushing publicity…only for us all to discover that her company was built upon a heap of lies and that the world-changing technology she’d been hawking was actually a useless hunk of junk that executives kept well hidden in its basement. Holmes, who was found guilty of fraud in January of 2022, was sentenced to 11 years in prison.
