Bad Blood: Secrets and Lies in a Silicon Valley Startup
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In 2014 Theranos founder Elizabeth Holmes was cast as the next Steve Jobs, a Stanford dropout whose device promised a full range of lab tests from a single drop of blood. Backed by big-name investors, a fundraising round valued the company at more than $9 billion and Holmes at about $4.5 billion. There was one problem: the technology did not work. Erroneous results endangered patients with misdiagnoses and unnecessary treatments, while Holmes and partner Sunny Balwani worked to silence journalists and employees who raised doubts. This is the story of one of the biggest corporate frauds in history, ambition and hubris amid Silicon Valley's bold promises.
Genres: True Crime
ISBN-13: 9780525431992
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