What Did Sunny Balwani Do Before Theranos? Here’s What We Know

Sunny’s family would eventually move to India because, as Coopersmith pointed out, “being a Hindu in a mostly all-Muslim country of Pakistan was very difficult.” They later immigrated to the United States.

In 1986, Sunny would go on to attend the University of Texas, Austin, where he earned a degree in information systems. He spent the ’90s working in the burgeoning dot-com industry for companies such as Microsoft and Lotus. Then, in 2002, when Sunny was 37 years old, he met Elizabeth Holmes. At the time, she was only 18.