![]() ![]() ![]() ![]() Holmes will begin to pay the price for her deceit on May 30 when she is scheduled begin the sentence that will separate her from her two children - a son whose July 2021 birth delayed the start of her trial and a 3-month-old daughter conceived after her conviction. Her motives are still somewhat mysterious, and some supporters say federal prosecutors targeted her unfairly in their zeal to bring down one of the most prominent practitioners of fake-it-til-you-make-it - the tech sector’s brand of self-promotion that sometimes veers into exaggeration and blatant lies to raise money. And Holmes’ defenders continue to ask whether the punishment fits the crime.Īt 39, she seems most likely to be remembered as Silicon Valley’s Icarus - a high-flying entrepreneur burning with reckless ambition whose odyssey culminated in convictions for fraud and conspiracy. Along the way, Holmes became a symbol of the shameless hyperbole that often saturates startup culture.īut questions still linger about her true intentions - so many that even the federal judge who presided over her trial seemed mystified. The 11-year sentence represents a comeuppance for the wide-eyed woman who broke through “tech bro” culture to become one of Silicon Valley’s most celebrated entrepreneurs, only to be exposed as a fraud. ![]()
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