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| Title | : | Bad Blood: Secrets and Lies in a Silicon Valley Startup |
| Author | : | John Carreyrou |
| Book Format | : | Hardcover |
| Book Edition | : | Special Edition |
| Pages | : | Pages: 339 pages |
| Published | : | May 21st 2018 by Knopf Publishing Group |
| Categories | : | Nonfiction. Business. Crime. True Crime. Audiobook. Science. Mystery. Technology |
John Carreyrou
Hardcover | Pages: 339 pages Rating: 4.44 | 139135 Users | 14021 Reviews
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The full inside story of the breathtaking rise and shocking collapse of a multibillion-dollar startup, by the prize-winning journalist who first broke the story and pursued it to the end in the face of pressure and threats from the CEO and 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 tests 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 $9 billion, putting Holmes's worth at an estimated $4.7 billion. There was just one problem: The technology didn't work.
For years, Holmes had been misleading investors, FDA officials, and her own employees. When Carreyrou, working at The Wall Street Journal, got a tip from a former Theranos employee and started asking questions, both Carreyrou and the Journal were threatened with lawsuits. Undaunted, the newspaper ran the first of dozens of Theranos articles in late 2015. By early 2017, the company's value was zero and Holmes faced potential legal action from the government and her investors. Here is the riveting story of the biggest corporate fraud since Enron, a disturbing cautionary tale set amid the bold promises and gold-rush frenzy of Silicon Valley.
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| Original Title: | Bad Blood: Secrets and Lies in a Silicon Valley Startup |
| ISBN: | 152473165X (ISBN13: 9781524731656) |
| Edition Language: | English |
| Characters: | Elizabeth Holmes, Theranos, Ramesh Balwani |
| Setting: | Palo Alto, California(United States) East Palo Alto, California(United States) |
| Literary Awards: | Los Angeles Times Book Prize Nominee for Current Interest (2018), Financial Times and McKinsey Business Book of the Year (2018), Goodreads Choice Award Nominee for Nonfiction (2018) |
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Ratings: 4.44 From 139135 Users | 14021 ReviewsCommentary Out Of Books Bad Blood: Secrets and Lies in a Silicon Valley Startup
Early in my career I worked at a next-generation sequencing startup with Theranos-level ambitions. In fact, it went further. The founders mission was to cure aging. Literally, the goal was immortality.There were other similarities: The company was founded by wunderkinds, they won the attention and support of a prominent professor in the field, they dropped out and raised millions of dollars from non-hard tech investors off the back of a concept, then tens of millions of dollars off the back of aThis was fucking BANANAS.
Bad Blood: Secrets and Lies in a Silicon Valley Startup by John Carreyrou is a 2018 Knopf Publishing Group publication. Super high turnover rate means youre never bored at work. Also good if youre an introvert because each shift is short-staffed. Especially if youre swing or graveyard. You essentially dont exist to the company.Why be bothered with lab coats and safety goggles? You dont need to use PPE at all. Who cares if you catch something like HIV or Syphilis? This company sure doesnt!! Brown
Money isn't the root of all evil. GREED is..... A Fascinating story, a tale of corporate fraud and a Journalist who uncovers the biggest corporate fraud since Enron. An intriguing story about a college dropout by the name of Elizabeth Holmes who becomes by the age of twenty nine, CEO of a company called Theranos and Silicon Valleys first ever female billionaire entrepreneur but by 2018 was facing federal charges of massive fraud which could see her facing up to 20 years in prison. I knew
Fascinating! Bad Blood: Secrets and Lies in a Silicon Valley Startup is a detailed account of the (perceived) rise and demise of Theranos, a blood testing startup once valued at nearly $9B. I thoroughly enjoyed this book and barely wanted to put it down. It was baffling to read about the scams, stunts and lies this company pulled, led by founder Elizabeth Holmes and her former boyfriend, Ramesh Sunny Balwani. The red flags surrounding Theranos were rampant, and Carreyrou does an excellent job
Bad Blood details the fascinating journey of a brilliant, soulless, young entrepreneur in pursuit of riches and fame. The story has heroes and villains, twisting and turning subplots, political intrigue and -even while we know the eventual outcome- plenty of surprises. It has all the elements of a good fictional thriller, but what makes this story most shocking and intriguing -- is the fact that it really happened. The details in this book will leave you shaking in your boots when you realize
Lessons learned:1. Elizabeth Holmes speaks in an unusually deep voice.2. What matters is who you know. If you look good and have the right connections, you can get millions of dollars for your imaginary device, particularly if you model it on the iPhone and dress like Steve Jobs.3. Even very rich people can be stupid with money.4. Sometimes the people that arent stupid are only supporting you for the money.Rather outside my normal genres of mystery, sci-fi and fantasy, Bad Blood intrigued me
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