Bad Blood: Secrets and Lies in a Silicon Valley Startup

Name: Bad Blood: Secrets and Lies in a Silicon Valley Startup
Author: John Carreyrou
ISBN: 9781524731663

John Carreyrou

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Bad Blood: Secrets and Lies in a Silicon Valley Startup

John Carreyrou

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Bad Blood won the National Book Award and was a National Bestseller. In 2014, Theranos founder and CEO Elizabeth Holmes was widely seen as the next Steve Jobs: a brilliant Stanford dropout whose startup "unicorn" promised to revolutionize the medical industry with its breakthrough device, which performed the whole range of laboratory tests from a single drop of blood. 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 $4.5 billion. There was just one problem: The technology didn't work. Erroneous results put patients in danger, leading to misdiagnoses and unnecessary treatments. All the while, Holmes and her partner, Sunny Balwani, worked to silence anyone who voiced misgivings—from journalists to their own employees.

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