Bad Blood: Secrets and Lies in a Silicon Valley StartupJohn Carreyrou
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Secrets and Lies in a Silicon Valley Startup Broschiertes Buch ' I couldn't put down this thriller . . . the perfect book to read by the fire this winter. ' Bill Gates, '5 books I loved in 2018' W I N N E R O F T H E F I N A N C I A L T I M E S/ M C K I N S E Y B U S I N E S S B O O K O F T H E Y E A R A W A R D 2018 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 C E O and threats by her lawyers. In 2014, Theranos founder and C E O 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. Now to be adapted into a film, with Jennifer Lawrence to star. ' Chilling . . . Reads like a West Coast version of All the President's Men. ' New York Times Book Review
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