Rigorously reported and fearlessly written, Bad Blood is a gripping story of the biggest corporate fraud since Enron-a tale of ambition and hubris set amid the bold promises of Silicon Valley. All the while, Holmes and her partner, Sunny Balwani, worked to silence anyone who voiced misgivings-from journalists to their own employees.

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There was just one problem: The technology didn’t work. 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 $4.5 billion. Bad Blood: Freedom and Death in the White Mountains Paperback Septemby Casey Sherman (Author) 49 ratings See all formats and editions Kindle 16.99 Read with Our Free App Hardcover 28.00 18 Used from 1.99 4 New from 28.00 5 Collectible from 17.95 Paperback 19.95 6 Used from 3.63 1 New from 19. In 2014, Theranos founder and CEO Elizabeth Holmes was widely seen as the next Steve Jobs: a brilliant Stanford dropout whose startup “unicorn” promised to revolutionize the medical industry with its breakthrough device, which performed the whole range of laboratory tests from a single drop of blood. Tracing the evolution of medical ethics and the nature of decision making in bureaucracies, Jones attempted to show that the. Bad Blood provides compelling answers to the question of how such a tragedy could have been allowed to occur. John Carreyrou details the biggest corporate fraud since Enron – a tale of ambition and hubris set amid the bold promises of Silicon Valley. At the end of this 40 year deathwatch, more than 100 men had died from syphilis or related complications. In 2014, Theranos promised to revolutionize the medical industry with its breakthrough device, but the technology did not work.

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