4.5
Økonomi og ledelse
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 (Lydbok): 9781509868100
Utgivelsesdato
Lydbok: 31. mai 2018
4.5
Økonomi og ledelse
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 (Lydbok): 9781509868100
Utgivelsesdato
Lydbok: 31. mai 2018
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27. apr. 2022
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4. nov. 2022
Utrolig spennende krim bok som viser at mennesker med mye penger og kontakter i et korrupt land er mye mer skremmende lesning enn vanlig «true crime»
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24. apr. 2022
Spennende, men leseren var litt monoton.
Solvår
23. jan. 2020
Very good!
Hege Elise
7. juni 2020
Elizabeth Holmes dannet sitt eget selskap som 19 åring, og ble styrtrik på en oppfinnelse, som viste seg aldri å fungere. Historien om hvordan hun klarte å føre så mange mennesker bak lyset, kanskje til og med seg selv, er både fascinerende og skremmende! Denne boka har jeg hørt på to ganger, for å få med meg alle detaljene.
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24. jan. 2022
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