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among the group and among the youngest of the group is my next guest, elizabeth holmes, the founder andrenos. there are many striking age-related superlatives about holmes, but perhaps the most striking is that according to "forbes" she is the youngest self-made female billionaire in the world. how did holmes make her money? well, she and her team have revolutionized one of the most common medical tests in the world. you've probably gone to the doctor for what seemed to be a simple blood test only to have vial after vial of blood drawn. well, pherenos have reduced that to just a few drops. i'll let her explain. >> people don't like big needles being stuck in their arms. and so part of our work has been -- >> reporter: so because they don't like that, they tend to not have their blood tested often enough? >> exactly. exactly. >> reporter: i mean, your basic thesis is that if we could have much more testing of blood, we would find out about these diseases or potential diseases much earlier. >> exactly. >> reporter: so why do we give so much blood? i think everyone who's ever had a blood t

self-made billionaire elizabeth holmes, dropped out of stamford her sophomore year. $4 billion. transforming industries. and we have a record number of self-made female billionaires this year. ten on our list. showing the power of entrepreneurship to propel women into new industries but also allow them to break free of the traditional power worlds. >> norah did a profile on elizabeth. loretta lynch is on the list. she just got to the national stage. >> she just got to the national stage, confirmed a couple weeks ago. she's number 34 on the list. first female african-american to take on that control, the second woman but she's the chief law enforcement officer. >> i'm chinese women? >> a third of our list from asia. that is continuing to grow. we're seeing a lot more entrepreneurs out of asia including a woman named jenny reed partner at the venture capital firm. she's one of the most powerful in the venture capital world. i think that number is going to continue to rise. >> thank you. >> great to have you here. >> i saw oprah winfrey on the list. >> yeah. >> thank yo

. >> elizabeth holmes 31 years i would.d and she's worth $4.5 billion. >> $4.5 billion. she dropped out of stanford her sophomore year. >> wait i thought when you dropped out of college that made you unequipped for life, right? >> it's hard to find somebody that hasn't changed the world in the 21st century that didn't drop out of college. >> very true. but her story a very personal story on why she started this blood lab. >> her uncle died of skin cancer. as the story goes she wanted to come up with a way to help people test themselves much more quickly. her tests you can do it with the pinprick pinprick, you can get 70 different tests run. phenomenal story. >> be a great running mate for scott walker but she's not constitutionally eligible because she's only 31. >> oh, my goodness. terrible. let's talk about the world's most powerful women, number one angela merkel. >> angela merkel is yet again -- she's been the number one for the past five years. i think nine out of the past ten. hillary clinton has moved up from number