Bad Blood: The Theranos Story, From Boom to Bust

Type
Book
Authors
ISBN 10
1509868089 
ISBN 13
9781509868087 
Category
Imported - Modern Books  [ Browse Items ]
Publication Year
2019 
Publisher
Pages
320 
Description
A New York Times BestsellerLonglisted for the Financial Times and McKinsey Business Book of the Year Award'Chilling . . . Reads like a West Coast version of All the President’s Men.' New York Times Book ReviewThe 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.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. 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. There was just one problem: The technology didn't work.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.Now to be adapted into a film, with Jennifer Lawrence to star. - from Amzon 
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