--- title: Elizabeth Holmes Defends Theranos in Today Show Interview description: The CEO of a health startup under scrutiny from federal regulators says she’s “devastated” that she didn’t fix compliance issues. canonical: https://time.com/4297840/elizabeth-holmes-theranos/ author: Victor Luckerson article:opinion: false article:content_tier: free article:published_time: 2016-04-18T16:38:45.000Z article:modified_time: 2026-04-13T08:49:52.343Z article:section: Business og:title: Elizabeth Holmes 'Devastated' Over Theranos Problems og:description: The embattled health CEO spoke out in a new interview og:url: https://time.com/4297840/elizabeth-holmes-theranos/ og:site_name: TIME og:image: https://static.time.com/v3/assets/bltea6093859af6183b/blt187d849229de74ff/69888f7f0b72e354e66e8faf/gettyimages-493352668.jpg?branch=production&width=3840&quality=75&auto=webp&crop=16:9 og:image:width: 1200 og:image:height: 675 og:image:alt: Squawk Box - Season 20 og:type: article twitter:card: summary_large_image twitter:title: Elizabeth Holmes 'Devastated' Over Theranos Problems twitter:description: The embattled health CEO spoke out in a new interview twitter:image: https://static.time.com/v3/assets/bltea6093859af6183b/blt187d849229de74ff/69888f7f0b72e354e66e8faf/gettyimages-493352668.jpg?branch=production&width=3840&quality=75&auto=webp&crop=16:9 ---  # Elizabeth Holmes 'Devastated' Over Theranos Problems by [Victor Luckerson](/author/victor-luckerson/) ## Victor Luckerson Apr 18, 2016 4:38 PM CUT  Elizabeth Holmes, Theranos CEO and the world's youngest self-made female billionaire, in an interview on September 29, 2015. Elizabeth Holmes, Theranos CEO and the world's youngest self-made female billionaire, in an interview on September 29, 2015.CNBC—NBCU Photo Bank via Getty Images by [Victor Luckerson](/author/victor-luckerson/) ## Victor Luckerson Apr 18, 2016 4:38 PM CUT The CEO of a health startup under scrutiny from federal regulators says she’s “devastated” that she didn’t fix compliance issues at the company sooner. Elizabeth Holmes sat for an [interview](http://www.today.com/video/theranos-ceo-elizabeth-holmes-i-m-devastated-about-blood-test-issues-668286019825 "undefined") on NBC’s TODAY show April 18 to defend Theranos, her much-hyped startup that wants to revolutionize blood tests. The executive has been on the defensive since The Wall Street _Journal_ [reported](http://www.wsj.com/articles/regulators-propose-banning-theranos-founder-elizabeth-holmes-for-at-least-two-years-1460570869 "undefined") that regulators have considered banning her from the industry for two years over violations of multiple laws regulating clinical labs, among other penalties. Holmes and Theranos are fighting to stop the sanctions from being implemented. “Anything that happens in this company is my responsibility at the end of the day,” Holmes said on TODAY. “We stopped testing and have taken the approach of saying, ‘let’s rebuild this entire laboratory from scratch so that we can ensure this never happens again.'” ```json [{"@context":"https://schema.org","@type":"NewsArticle","@id":"https://time.com/4297840/elizabeth-holmes-theranos/","mainEntityOfPage":{"@type":"WebPage","@id":"https://time.com/4297840/elizabeth-holmes-theranos/"},"headline":"Elizabeth Holmes 'Devastated' Over Theranos Problems","datePublished":"2016-04-18T16:38:45.000Z","dateModified":"2026-04-13T08:49:52.343Z","description":"Star CEO says she accepts responsibility for problems at health startup","url":"https://time.com/4297840/elizabeth-holmes-theranos/","keywords":["Companies","Tech","Health Care","health"],"thumbnailUrl":"https://static.time.com/v3/assets/bltea6093859af6183b/blt187d849229de74ff/69888f7f0b72e354e66e8faf/gettyimages-493352668.jpg?branch=production&width=1200&quality=75&auto=webp&crop=1200:675&height=675","author":[{"@type":"Person","name":"Victor Luckerson","jobTitle":null,"url":"https://time.com/author/victor-luckerson/"}],"articleSection":"Business","image":[{"@type":"ImageObject","url":"https://static.time.com/v3/assets/bltea6093859af6183b/blt187d849229de74ff/69888f7f0b72e354e66e8faf/gettyimages-493352668.jpg?branch=production&width=1200&quality=75&auto=webp&crop=1200:675&height=675","width":1200,"height":675,"headline":"Squawk Box - Season 20","caption":"Squawk Box - Season 20","creditText":"CNBC—NBCU Photo Bank via Getty Images","representativeOfPage":true}],"publisher":{"@type":"Organization","name":"Time","url":"https://time.com/","logo":{"@type":"ImageObject","url":"https://time.com/images/logo.png","width":528,"height":156},"foundingDate":"March 3, 1923","sameAs":["https://www.facebook.com/time","https://www.instagram.com/time/?hl=en","https://twitter.com/time","https://www.pinterest.com/timemagazine"]}},{"@context":"https://schema.org","@type":"BreadcrumbList","itemListElement":[{"@type":"ListItem","position":1,"item":{"@id":"/section/business/","name":"Business"}},{"@type":"ListItem","position":2,"item":{"@id":"/tag/companies/","name":"Companies"}},{"@type":"ListItem","position":3,"item":{"@id":"https://time.com/4297840/elizabeth-holmes-theranos/","name":"Elizabeth Holmes 'Devastated' Over Theranos Problems"}}]}] ```