Bad Blood

Secrets and Lies in a Silicon Valley Startup

eBook, 352 pages

English language

Published Nov. 20, 2018 by Alfred A. Knopf.

ISBN:
978-1-5247-3166-3
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OCLC Number:
1090936522

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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.

A riveting story of the biggest corporate fraud since Enron, a tale of ambition and hubris set amid the bold promises of Silicon Valley. source: www.penguinrandomhouse.com/books/549478/bad-blood-by-john-carreyrou/

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