4.5
Economy & Business
A New York Times besteller.
Winner of the Financial Times/McKinsey Business Book of the Year Award 2018.
The full inside story of the breathtaking rise and shocking collapse of Theranos, the multibillion-dollar biotech startup founded by Elizabeth Holmes, 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 a film, starring Jennifer Lawrence.
'Chilling . . . Reads like a West Coast version of All the President’s Men.' – New York Times Book Review
© 2018 Macmillan Digital Audio (Audiobook): 9781509868100
Release date
Audiobook: 31 May 2018
4.5
Economy & Business
A New York Times besteller.
Winner of the Financial Times/McKinsey Business Book of the Year Award 2018.
The full inside story of the breathtaking rise and shocking collapse of Theranos, the multibillion-dollar biotech startup founded by Elizabeth Holmes, 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 a film, starring Jennifer Lawrence.
'Chilling . . . Reads like a West Coast version of All the President’s Men.' – New York Times Book Review
© 2018 Macmillan Digital Audio (Audiobook): 9781509868100
Release date
Audiobook: 31 May 2018
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Srijit
27 Feb 2020
Mind blowing...
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22 May 2020
Loved it. One of the scariest things happened in silicon valley
Dipen
10 Apr 2023
Must read
Gurpreet
20 Feb 2020
A good read ....
Sujit
1 Feb 2022
One of the best reads. The pace and writing is there. Never a dull moment
Sudhesh
22 Jun 2021
Exceptional narration,exposes the naivety of some of the most revered names in public life.
Pradeep
4 Jul 2020
One of the best book I’ve read during Pandemic! Superb presentation of all characters (employees/BoD) by the Author
Arun
2 Jan 2024
Mind blowing take on the Theranos saga. I would have never imagined a factual, techno-medical, legal story can be written in such an intense and absorbing manner. It gets to the depths of things and amazingly written. (One complaint : I felt it demeaned some Indian software engineers leveraging on the execute Sunny of theranos. I felt this was unwarranted )
Murali
19 Oct 2021
Story was narrated wonderfully.
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