John Carreyrou
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| Title | : | Bad Blood: Secrets and Lies in a Silicon Valley Startup |
| Author | : | John Carreyrou |
| Book Format | : | Hardcover |
| Book Edition | : | Special Edition |
| Pages | : | Pages: 339 pages |
| Published | : | May 21st 2018 by Knopf Publishing Group |
| Categories | : | Nonfiction. Business. Crime. True Crime. Audiobook. Science. Mystery. Technology |
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The full inside story of the breathtaking rise and shocking collapse of a multibillion-dollar startup, by the prize-winning journalist who first broke the story and pursued it to the end in the face of pressure and threats from the CEO and 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 tests 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 $9 billion, putting Holmes's worth at an estimated $4.7 billion. There was just one problem: The technology didn't work. For years, Holmes had been misleading investors, FDA officials, and her own employees. When Carreyrou, working at The Wall Street Journal, got a tip from a former Theranos employee and started asking questions, both Carreyrou and the Journal were threatened with lawsuits. Undaunted, the newspaper ran the first of dozens of Theranos articles in late 2015. By early 2017, the company's value was zero and Holmes faced potential legal action from the government and her investors. Here is the riveting story of the biggest corporate fraud since Enron, a disturbing cautionary tale set amid the bold promises and gold-rush frenzy of Silicon Valley.Declare Books To Bad Blood: Secrets and Lies in a Silicon Valley Startup
| Original Title: | Bad Blood: Secrets and Lies in a Silicon Valley Startup |
| ISBN: | 152473165X (ISBN13: 9781524731656) |
| Edition Language: | English |
| Characters: | Elizabeth Holmes, Theranos, Ramesh Balwani |
| Setting: | Palo Alto, California(United States) East Palo Alto, California(United States) |
| Literary Awards: | Los Angeles Times Book Prize Nominee for Current Interest (2018), Financial Times and McKinsey Business Book of the Year (2018), Goodreads Choice Award Nominee for Nonfiction (2018) |
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I dont read a lot of page turners. I often find myself unable to put a book downbut theyre not the kinds of books that would keep most people glued to their chairs. Still, I recently found myself reading a book so compelling that I couldnt turn away.Bad Blood: Secrets and Lies in a Silicon Valley Startup by John Carreyrou details the rise and fall of Theranos. If you arent familiar with the Theranos story, heres the short version: the company promised to quickly give you a complete picture ofEarly in my career I worked at a next-generation sequencing startup with Theranos-level ambitions. In fact, it went further. The founders mission was to cure aging. Literally, the goal was immortality.There were other similarities: The company was founded by wunderkinds, they won the attention and support of a prominent professor in the field, they dropped out and raised millions of dollars from non-hard tech investors off the back of a concept, then tens of millions of dollars off the back of a
I dont read a lot of page turners. I often find myself unable to put a book downbut theyre not the kinds of books that would keep most people glued to their chairs. Still, I recently found myself reading a book so compelling that I couldnt turn away.Bad Blood: Secrets and Lies in a Silicon Valley Startup by John Carreyrou details the rise and fall of Theranos. If you arent familiar with the Theranos story, heres the short version: the company promised to quickly give you a complete picture of
If you're into stuff like this, you can read the full review.Con-Artist: "Bad Blood: Secrets and Lies in a Silicon Valley Startup" by John CarreyrouThis story is fascinating. Yes, how was she able to rationalize lying and endangering so many -- investors, Walgreens, and especially the general public? It was good this book went into her family of origin. Holmes' father expected her to do something that would change the world. Did Elizabeth feel pressure to be some sort of genius influencer? She
HOLY COW. I followed the Elizabeth Holmes/Theranos story slightly but this book does such a fantastic job of showing how completely banana pants this situation was. This was also great on audio, and so addictive that I started making up chores I could do just so I could keep listening.Watch me discuss this book in my July wrap up: https://youtu.be/8kaQcaNn9uw
"The resignations infuriated Elizabeth and Sunny. The following day, they summoned the staff for an all-hands meeting in the cafeteria. Copies of The Alchemist by Paulo Coelho had been placed on every chair. Elizabeth told the gathered employees that she was building a religion. If there was anyone not prepared to show complete devotion and unmitigated loyalty to the company they should get the fuck out.The Steve Jobs SyndromeI have covered Silicon Valley as a journalist and author for three
I dont read a lot of nonfiction books. I love the imagination of fiction. When I heard about this book from a television show, it sounded unbelievable. The fact that this was a true story that seemed stranger than fiction, I had to give it a read. Im really glad I did because this was really good. This story is about the youngest woman, to become a self-made billionaire, and the giant fraud she committed on Silicon Valley. Elizabeth Holmes, was a Stanford drop-out that used her knowledge and
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