Reads like a West Coast version of All the President’s Men. In Bad Blood, John Carreyrou tells the riveting story of the biggest corporate fraud since Enron, a tale of ambition and hubris set amid the bold promises of Silicon Valley.
There was just one problem: the technology didn’t work.
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. Bad Blood: Secrets and Lies in a Silicon Valley Startup John Carreyrou Knopf Doubleday Publishing Group, Business & Economics - 352 pages 72 Reviews Reviews arent verified. 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. The riveting true story of the breathtaking rise and shocking collapse of Theranos, the multibillion-dollar biotech startup founded by Elizabeth Holmes, 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. Winner of the Financial Times/McKinsey Business Book of the Year Award 2018 the perfect book to read by the fire this winter.’ Bill Gates Now with a new afterword covering the months-long landmark trials of Elizabeth Holmes and Sunny Balwani.
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