![]() Reads like a West Coast version of All the President's Men. ![]() Now to be adapted into a film, with Jennifer Lawrence to star. 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. Carreyrou’s new book about Theranos, Bad Blood: Secrets and Lies in a Silicon Valley Startup, builds on his original reporting to create a compelling, cinematic Silicon Valley thriller. 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. 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. It covers the rise and fall of Theranos, the multibillion-dollar biotech startup headed by Elizabeth Holmes. The full inside story of the breathtaking rise and shocking collapse of Theranos, the multibillion-dollar biotech startup, 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. Bad Blood: Secrets and Lies in a Silicon Valley Startup is a nonfiction book by journalist John Carreyrou, released May 21, 2018. ![]() 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, '5 books I loved in 2018'. ![]()
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