It was something that Fuisz remembers the Holmes family being very proud of. They really took that mantle of this family history very, very seriously indeed.” Fuisz said.Ĭhristian Holmes IV descended from Charles Louis Fleischmann, who founded the incredibly successful Fleischmann Yeast company.
But the father would speak quite often about their lineage. “Her dad could be a charming guy, you know, in a kind of WASPy way. “This was, I think, was a family that took nice things really seriously,” Fuisz told Jarvis on “The Dropout” podcast. His stepmother Lorraine and Holmes’s mother were once best friends. Joseph Fuisz, a former family friend and neighbor, met Elizabeth Holmes when she was about 9 years old. Her father Christian Holmes IV, worked at a number of government agencies, and even briefly for Enron, the once-celebrated energy giant that came crashing down in one of the greatest frauds of American history.
Her mother, Noel, used to be a policy aide on Capitol Hill. Her precocious confidence started at a young age. So how did Elizabeth Holmes, a college dropout with no professional health care or science experience, convince so many people that her idea was going to change the world? From left to right, Theranos CEO Elizabeth Holmes, Ramesh “Sunny” Balwani, her brother Christian and whistleblower Tyler Shultz are seen here during their depositions.
