In 2015, I translated some inspirational articles from Forbes for an investment education institution, including a successful report about the establishment of a blood test company by Miss Elizabeth at the age of 19.
At that time, I was amazed. How can I know what I want to do so clearly at such a young age? Isn't this a real thing: the sky will come to the people?
Four years later, this gifted girl has fallen from the altar. From the youngest female elite in Silicon Valley who made her fortune on her own, she became a big liar that everyone spurned. She kept saying that with just a drop of blood, she could monitor all kinds of things. The disease instrument can actually detect nothing. Just like the name of the instrument "Edison", it is like the bragging light bulb inventor, it is a useless thing that has been blown out. Edison himself was still favored by God, and he did overcome the light bulb problem. The "Edison" blood tester was not so good. From start to finish, it was just a plastic box.
Going back to the review, I found all the incredible about Elizabeth: Stanford dropped out of school, received financial support and endorsement from a large number of venture capitalists, including Tim Draper and Deng's ex-husband media mogul Murdoch. Her blood testing company Theranos used to have an epic-level board of directors, including American international affairs experts, Chinese old friend (spray) friend (son) Kissinger, former U.S. Secretary-General George Shultz, Oracle CEO and the United States David Boies, the national treasure-class golden tooth and big shape, and so on.
These people have three obvious characteristics in common-prominent in society, old, and man. Of course, since they met Elizabeth, they have added a new point in common-everyone loves Elizabeth Holmes.
Elizabeth, whom the big brothers all love, cannot be said to be brilliant in terms of appearance. Looking closely at her and Facebook CEO Mark Zugberg, they are like brothers and sisters, and they are very face-to-face.
She obviously appreciates the life of her unrelated "distant cousin": Elizabeth High School started to learn Chinese. Like Mark, she entered an Ivy League school but dropped out, but one was at Harvard on the East Coast and the other was on the West Coast. Stanford; made a fortune in Silicon Valley, transformed into a billionaire, but the closet is always the same clothes-Mark loves his gray T-shirts, and Elizabeth loves the black pullovers of her ultimate idol, Jobs, and two people use them Shaped his own personal symbol.
From this point of view, it is a bit far-fetched for Elizabeth to rely on her sexual charm to conquer these well-known old men's endorsements. But if you watch this documentary, you will find that even if her lies are exposed, there are still old men who are unwilling to believe in such a cruel reality and support Elizabeth.
Tim Draper, an investment tycoon who established Draper University in Silicon Valley, said in an interview in this film that as an investor, he relies on intuition. He is always the first group of people who invested, and therefore the first to get the sweetness. When he talked about Elizabeth, he said that the first time he saw her and chatted with her, he knew that as long as she wanted to do, she would succeed. She is that kind of person. (Does it sound like "shoes")
The first time I heard Elizabeth speak, it was easy to be frightened-her voice was low and crude, completely inconsistent with her blond image. Her body language is not like a lady at all-she often pulls her legs on the chair, tilts her body, and stretches her big head towards the other person, as if I am very engaged in talking to you.
Western behaviorists say that she is pretending to be a male voice, imitating the usual posture of the powerful, so that people who are familiar with this set can easily put down their defenses. Especially those old men who have been in business for many years, they can judge your background, background and class in the shortest time, so as to predict an IQ value in their hearts. After all, they don't want to waste time on what they think is a "stupid person". .
Elizabeth's precocity and open mind, let her easily decipher the psychological code of big brothers.
Although Hollywood and Silicon Valley are very close, they have completely different perspectives on the beauty of women. Although the diversity of women admired by Hollywood is increasing over time, the background color is still closely related to Marilyn Monroe; and the women admired by Silicon Valley elites, the most important thing is that they can understand what they want in the shortest time. What you want, understand their desires, appreciate their greed, and the importance of appearance is very different from person to person.
Elizabeth employees said she looked scary because she hardly blinked. Watching Elizabeth’s interview video, she is not very fast, every word is sonorous, and she often pauses, which reminds me of the language training courses I took in college-if you want to impress the other person ,you need to:
1. Slow down your blinking frequency
2. Think clearly before speaking, and speak as slowly as possible, clear and powerful
3. Stress should be emphasized when speaking, and the interesting part should be emphasized
Don't underestimate these three points, what I learned in university, I still can't do it now, because they need constant training to integrate into subconscious reactions and behaviors. Obviously, if Elizabeth is not born like this, she must have strong self-control and clear goals, know her strengths and weaknesses, and gradually make adjustments.
Merely doing these small details is obviously not enough to explain why the old men of Vanity Fair love her?
For the first time, the media that fully reported Theranos and Elizabeth was Fortune. The editor-in-chief who pushed her to the public and dumped her in the documentary shed painful tears. He couldn't believe it. He wrote it by himself. The report, which portrayed Elizabeth's image as a successful female entrepreneur, was actually a total lie. This must be contrary to the journalism he insisted on all his life. But he himself said that at the beginning, he believed her so much that she was the brightest star in the night sky.
Do not describe Elizabeth too much. Her entrepreneurial partner and boyfriend Sunny, 19 years older than her, used to be a brilliant entrepreneur in Silicon Valley. Everyone thinks Sunny is a tough and courageous person. But in front of Elizabeth, he is obviously a docile little sheep. The documentary describes their relationship as that she dominates him. It can be seen that this rookie in the science and technology industry can easily control these old men, which is a bit of a Tathagata Buddha.
To me, Murdoch fell in love with Wendi Deng, in addition to her young, interesting and exotic, more importantly, she knows how to "show strong." She graduated from the Yale MBA, penniless but ambitious. Because there is nothing to lose, there is nothing to be afraid of, so she and Murdoch are equal and free in their interactions. Because of her enthusiasm for dreams, Lao Mo seems to see herself back then.
Returning to see Elizabeth, her conversation at the age of 25 is no different from that of successful Silicon Valley entrepreneurs. She can easily throw away the halo of the old men in Vanity Fair and talk to them seriously. dream. She is not afraid of the authority and reputation of these people at all. What she wants to do has an infinite mission and motivation. In the documentary, the old men reflected on their opinions of Elizabeth, and used the word Zealot-a fanatic to describe her.
What floats on the Vanity Fair is always falsely used and used. In Elizabeth's case, the value of the old man is given a sense of mission, so each of them suddenly has a new meaning in the exhaustion after the pursuit of fame and fortune, which should have a similar effect to such as stimulants in the blood.
As for Elizabeth, it can be concluded that she is a genius. In addition to the influence of her knowledge and family background, she is extremely convinced of what she has done. Because belief becomes belief, people can be invincible. She is another typical example of "Only paranoia can survive."
Silicon Valley is not as energetic as it is said in the legend. The place where fame and fortune is pursued is bound to be full of lies and deceit. Elizabeth and her blood testing company capsized because of ambition greater than strength, but I sincerely hope that she can make a comeback and make a steadfast one. Decent things come, and let the women inside and outside Vanity Fair applaud her.
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