Now with a new afterword covering the months-long landmark trials of Elizabeth Holmes and Sunny Balwani.<\/b><\/p>\n
‘I couldn’t put down this thriller . . . the perfect book to read by the fire this winter.’ Bill Gates<\/b><\/p>\n
Winner of the Financial Times\/McKinsey Business Book of the Year Award 2018<\/b><\/p>\n
The riveting true 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.<\/p>\n
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.<\/p>\n
In Bad Blood<\/i>, 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.<\/p>\n
‘Chilling . . . Reads like a West Coast version of All the President’s Men<\/i>.’ New York Times Book Review<\/i><\/b><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"
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