Bad Blood: Secrets and Lies in a Silicon Valley StartupNEW YORK TIMES BEST SELLER • NAMED ONE OF THE BEST BOOKS OF THE YEAR BY: NPR, The New York Times Book Review, Time, Wall Street Journal, Washington Post • The McKinsey Business Book of the Year The full inside story of the breathtaking rise and shocking collapse of Theranos, the one-time multibillion-dollar biotech startup founded by Elizabeth Holmes—now the subject of the HBO documentary The Inventor—by the prize-winning journalist who first broke the story and pursued it to the end. “The story is even crazier than I expected, and I found myself unable to put it down once I started. This book has everything: elaborate scams, corporate intrigue, magazine cover stories, ruined family relationships, and the demise of a company once valued at nearly $10 billion.” —Bill Gates 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 - Sarah220 - LibraryThingWow. A fascinating and terrifying tale. The hubris and gall of Holmes is astonishing and nauseating. As a person with a chronic condition who has benefited from medical research and technological ... Read full review
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User Review - idiopathic - LibraryThingMust read for every health care technology company The fraud detailed here is breath-taking but also the research of the author is amazing. A third Pulitzer awaits him no doubt. It is wonderful to ... Read full review
Contents
The Gluebot | |
Apple Envy | |
Goodbye East Paly | |
The Childhood Neighbor | |
Sunny | |
Ian Gibbons | |
ChiatDay | |
Going Live | |
Unicorn | |
The Grandson | |
Fame | |
The Hippocratic Oath | |
The | |
Dr | |
The miniLab | |
The Wellness Play | |
Who Is LTC Shoemaker? | |
Lighting a Fuisz | |
The Ambush | |
Trade Secrets | |
Afterword to the Vintage Books Edition 2020 | |
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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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