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Bad Blood: Secrets and Lies in a Silicon Valley Startup (original 2018; edition 2018)

by John Carreyrou (Author)

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"The full inside story of the breathtaking rise and shocking collapse of Theranos--the Enron of Silicon Valley--by the prize-winning journalist who first broke the story and pursued it to the end in the face of pressure and threats from the CEO and 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 tests significantly faster and easier. Backed by investors such as Larry Ellison and Tim Draper, Theranos sold shares in an early fundraising round that valued the company at $9 billion, putting Holmes's worth at an estimated $4.7 billion. There was just one problem: the technology didn't work. For years, Holmes had been misleading investors, FDA officials, and her own employees. When Carreyrou, working at the Wall Street Journal, got a tip from a former Theranos employee and started asking questions, both Carreyrou and the Journal were threatened with lawsuits. Undaunted, the newspaper ran the first of dozens of Theranos articles in late 2015. By early 2017, the company's value was zero and Holmes faced potential legal action from the government and her investors. Here is the riveting story of the biggest corporate fraud since Enron, a disturbing cautionary tale set amid the bold promises and gold-rush frenzy of Silicon Valley"--… (more)
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Title:Bad Blood: Secrets and Lies in a Silicon Valley Startup
Authors:John Carreyrou (Author)
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Bad Blood: Secrets and Lies in a Silicon Valley Startup by John Carreyrou (2018)

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The thing about this being a page-turner was no joke: i read it in three days. ( )
  aleshh | Jan 12, 2024 |
This one totally led up to the hype. This level selling people on complete BS totally happens and it takes you back all the times you've been in a meeting and thought "yeah right" this is that out of control. Written like a true investigative report it gives the facts objectively but not so dry it's boring. Very well written, the ordering made sense and wasn't confusing or hard to follow even when listening as an audiobook, a hard feat for this type of book. ( )
  hellokirsti | Jan 3, 2024 |
Everything about this book is insane. The story is compelling, really well written, and a great example of why we need a free press. ( )
  ohheybrian | Dec 29, 2023 |
Like the movie "Spotlight," this book presents a potent argument for buttressing journalism schools in the United States and ensuring that we as a society and a republic have among us a cadre of well-trained, independent, professional journalists. Kudos to John Carreyrou for both his gifts as a stylist and an investigative reporter. It would not be too much to call him an American hero.
  Mark_Feltskog | Dec 23, 2023 |
I always wondered why is was so difficult to expose illegal business activity. Now I understand why. The pressure on the truth teller is intense. ( )
  addunn3 | Nov 6, 2023 |
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The author’s description of Holmes as a manic leader who turned coolly hostile when challenged is ripe material for a psychologist; Carreyrou wisely lets the evidence speak for itself. As presented here, Holmes harbored delusions of grandeur but couldn’t cope with the messy realities of bioengineering. Swathed in her own reality distortion field, she dressed in black turtlenecks to emulate her idol Jobs and preached that the Theranos device was “the most important thing humanity has ever built.” Employees were discouraged from questioning this cultish orthodoxy by her “ruthlessness” and her “culture of fear.” Secrecy was obsessive. Labs and doors were equipped with fingerprint scanners.
 

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"The full inside story of the breathtaking rise and shocking collapse of Theranos--the Enron of Silicon Valley--by the prize-winning journalist who first broke the story and pursued it to the end in the face of pressure and threats from the CEO and 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 tests significantly faster and easier. Backed by investors such as Larry Ellison and Tim Draper, Theranos sold shares in an early fundraising round that valued the company at $9 billion, putting Holmes's worth at an estimated $4.7 billion. There was just one problem: the technology didn't work. For years, Holmes had been misleading investors, FDA officials, and her own employees. When Carreyrou, working at the Wall Street Journal, got a tip from a former Theranos employee and started asking questions, both Carreyrou and the Journal were threatened with lawsuits. Undaunted, the newspaper ran the first of dozens of Theranos articles in late 2015. By early 2017, the company's value was zero and Holmes faced potential legal action from the government and her investors. Here is the riveting story of the biggest corporate fraud since Enron, a disturbing cautionary tale set amid the bold promises and gold-rush frenzy of Silicon Valley"--

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