I'm the founder and CEO of Theranos

Our work is in being able to realize a healthcare

paradigm around early detection, prevention,

and consumer empowerment, and in making it possible

to do laboratory testing in a highly accessible way,

which means tiny samples instead of big tubes

of blood from your arm and incredibly low prices.

Our belief is that every person, no matter where

they live or how much money they have, has the basic

human right to access to their own health information.

And so our mission, our dream, is to make it possible not

just in this country but globally for people everywhere

to begin to have access to this information so that

they can use it to live their best lives and to catch

the onset of disease in time to do something about it.

I think the opportunity to try to connect with especially

women and young girls and developing economies around

what, only because of this country, I've been

able to do -- which is, as a young girl, start

a business, drop out of school, and try to make

a difference in the world is both something that

I feel a great obligation to do and something that I want

very much to do because I've been able to benefit from it.

In the same way as I've always seen technology

as a tool for being able to realize policy changes,

there's the opportunity to use a vehicle like this

to be able to engage with, for example, the women and girls,

and show it's possible.

And I've always thought about it sort of as the four-minute

mile where, once one person does it, everybody

else does too.

And that's something that is so important,

especially in these areas where we need

people to know that they can stand up.