Sometimes you have to gamble everything
Some innovations need all your commitment. Some breakthroughs demand all you have. Any less than everything, and they have no hope of working. This isnât about winning at all costs, but it is about gambling enough to make your new ideas work. It about placing bets sufficient to change the world.
At the age of 19, Elizabeth Holmes decided to drop out of Stanford University after gaining the insight that advances in micro-fluid technology revolutionise blood testing. She gambled on her insight and ended up living in the basement of some graduate students as she developed her ideas, filed a patent, and looked for the funding to make a revolution in healthcare ...
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