Bad Blood: Secrets and Lies in a Silicon Valley Startup by John Carreyrou
A New York Times Bestseller. Longlisted for the Financial Times and McKinsey Business Book of the Year Award
The full inside story of the breathtaking rise and shocking collapse of Theranos, the multibillion-dollar biotech startup, 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.
Format: Paperback | 320 pages
Dimensions (cm): 19.8 x 12.9 x 2.1 | 252g
Publication Date: 26 Mar 2009
Publisher: Pan Macmillan
Imprint: Picador
Publication City/Country: London, United Kingdom
Language: English
ISBN10: 1509868089
ISBN13: 9781509868087
Condition: Good
A book that has been read but is in good condition. Some minor damage to the cover including minor scuff marks and creasing along the edges, but no holes or tears. The majority of pages are undamaged with minimal creasing and a tiny tear at the top of page 55, but no other tearing anywhere else in the book. No pencil underlining of text, no highlighting of text and no writing in margins. No missing pages.