The Elizabeth Holmes "fraud" narrative was long contradicted by what was true: Holmes's backers included the most prominent names in investing, business, economics, and politics. Fraudsters of course sell when people are duped, but when the world's greatest investors were lined up trying to buy Holmes's Theranos shares, she refused. From there, one would have to believe that some of the world's savviest investors didn't discover Holmes's alleged fraud, rather it was an unknown reporter who somehow scooped the world's best investors. Not very likely. The contradictions are many, and they gloss over the fact that as a female Stanford dropout, Holmes was constantly in the spotlight in the way that a male Stanford dropout would not have been. There are many of them, not many of Holmes's type. That is not a feminist comment, but it is a comment that for being a magnet for media, Holmes missed the crucial chance to develop her product anonymously, and on a better timeline. Said another way, had she not been so successful in pursuit of the impossible while raising money to back her vision over 15 years, she would not be in prison today. Holmes isn't a fraud nor did she fail, she was merely the only startup founder to build her company in a fishbowl. The latter arguably has her wrongly imprisoned today. realclearmarkets.com/article…