Bad Blood: Secrets and Lies in a Silicon Valley Startup***A National Bestseller*** One of the Best Books of 2018: NPR • New York Times Book Review, Inc. • TIME • Wall Street Journal • Washington Post "Chilling…Reads like a West Coast version of All the President’s Men." —The New York Times Book Review The full inside story of the breathtaking rise and shocking collapse of Theranos, the multibillion-dollar biotech startup, by the prize-winning journalist who first broke the story and pursued it to the end, despite pressure from its charismatic CEO and threats by her lawyers. In 2014, Theranos founder and CEO Elizabeth Holmes was widely seen as the female Steve Jobs: a brilliant Stanford dropout whose startup "unicorn" promised to revolutionize the medical industry with a machine that would make blood testing significantly faster and easier. Backed by investors such as Larry Ellison and Tim Draper, Theranos sold shares in a fundraising round that valued the company at more than $9 billion, putting Holmes's worth at an estimated $4.7 billion. There was just one problem: The technology didn't work. A riveting story of the biggest corporate fraud since Enron, a tale of ambition and hubris set amid the bold promises of Silicon Valley. |
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User Review - carolfoisset - www.librarything.comWow - what a story! I heard the author on a podcast and remembered I had heard a bit about Elizabeth Holmes but I didn't know the whole story. Extremely well written book, so hard to believe that it ... Read full review
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User Review - wellreadcatlady - www.librarything.comElizabeth Holmes is a con artist who was described as being the next Steve Jobs with her blood testing technology that would allow people to test their blood at home using a single drop of blood. Only ... Read full review
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Going Live | |
Unicorn | |
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Fame | |
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| Title | Bad Blood: Secrets and Lies in a Silicon Valley Startup |
| Author | John Carreyrou |
| Publisher | Knopf Doubleday Publishing Group, 2018 |
| ISBN | 1524731668, 9781524731663 |
| Length | 352 pages |
| Subjects | › › Business & Economics / Corporate Finance / Venture Capital Business & Economics / Entrepreneurship Technology & Engineering / Biomedical |
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