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Books by john carreyrou6/4/2023 ![]() "You will not want to put this riveting, masterfully reported book down. Bad Blood is wild, and more happens on one page than in many other entire books." -Margaret Lyons, The New York Times " Bad Blood is the real be-all end-all of Theranos information…. All the while, Holmes and her partner, Sunny Balwani, worked to silence anyone who voiced misgivings-from journalists to their own employees. Erroneous results put patients in danger, leading to misdiagnoses and unnecessary treatments. 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 $4.5 billion. In 2014, Theranos founder and CEO Elizabeth Holmes was widely seen as the next Steve Jobs: a brilliant Stanford dropout whose startup “unicorn” promised to revolutionize the medical industry with its breakthrough device, which performed the whole range of laboratory tests from a single drop of blood. ![]() Carreyrou tells virtually to perfection.” - The New York Times Book Review ![]() With a new Afterword covering her trial and sentencing, bringing the story to a close. ![]() The gripping story of Elizabeth Holmes and T heranos -one of the biggest corporate frauds in history-a tale of ambition and hubris set amid the bold promises of Silicon Valley, rigorously reported by the prize-winning journalist. ![]()
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