Bad Blood: Secrets and Lies in a Silicon Valley Startup: The Story of Elizabeth Holmes and the Theranos Scandal

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Now with a new afterword covering the months-long landmark trials of Theranos founders Elizabeth Holmes and Sunny Balwani.‘I couldn’t put down this thriller’ – Bill GatesWinner of the Financial Times/McKinsey Business Book of the Year Award.The shocking true story of the breathtaking rise and collapse of Theranos, the multibillion-dollar biotech startup founded by Elizabeth Holmes, written by the prize-winning journalist who first broke the story and pursued it to the end.Seen as the female Steve Jobs, Theranos founder and CEO Elizabeth Holmes was 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 wealthy investors, Theranos sold shares that valued the company at more than $9 billion.There was just one problem: the technology didn’t work . . .Despite threats of legal action, brave whistleblowers started to talk. They revealed a culture of intimidation and secrecy, technology that repeatedly failed, results sent to real patients that were incorrect but upon which life-changing medical decisions were being made, with devastating consequences.The riveting story behind The Dropout, in Bad Blood, John Carreyrou investigates the biggest corporate fraud since Enron, a tale of ambition and scandal set amid the bold promises of Silicon Valley.'A tale of corporate fraud and legal browbeating that reads like a crime thriller' - The 10 Best Nonfiction Books, TIME
Copyright:
2020

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Publisher Quality
ISBN-13:
9781035028627
Related ISBNs:
9781035006779
Publisher:
Pan Macmillan
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Copyrighted By:
Cambronne Inc.
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No
Language:
English
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No
Categories:
Nonfiction, Science, Biographies and Memoirs, Business and Finance, Language Arts, Medicine, Communication
Reading Age:
18 and up
Submitted By:
Bookshare Staff
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