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At least one strange aspect of her biography that has always stood out to me is: > During high school, she was interested in computer programming and says she
by daveevad 4y ago
At least one strange aspect of her biography that has always stood out to me is:
> During high school, she was interested in computer programming and says she started her first business selling C++ compilers to Chinese universities.
That seems extremely suspicious and unlikely but I would love to learn more about it.
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Elizabeth_Holmes#cite_note-Roger2014-19 https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Elizabeth_Holmes#cite_note-Rog...
- layer8 4y agoAt the time, C++ compilers costing money was normal (Microsoft, Borland), and those were physical products (CD-ROMs, printed manuals), so it seems semi-plausible she could have acted as an intermediary with the help of her parents.
- djaouen 4y agoI was in high school around the same time as Holmes and recall using g++ as our compiler. This was on Linux, though.
- layer8 4y agoI know. I wouldn’t put it past her being business-savvy enough to sell the Chinese g++. :)
- kjs3 4y agoMy experience with Chinese universities was that they had their own ecosystem to "obtain" Western software. They didn't need an intermediary.
- djaouen 4y agoMight be true because Holmes has a pathological stupidity.
- rsynnott 4y agoYeah, was trying to find out more about that before, couldn't find anything. Now, the journalist wrote a followup about how he'd been mislead, and maybe that was part of the misinformation... but if it was it was a deeply weird thing to make up. Holmes is about the same age as me, and when I was in high school there were definitely free C++ compilers, even for Windows (I vaguely remember messing around with this: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/DJGPP https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/DJGPP, and Borland also had a shareware C++ compiler...)