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Bad Blood by John Carreyrou

NEW YORK TIMES BEST SELER - NAMED ONE OF THE BEST BOKS OF THE YEAR BY: NPR, The New York Times Book Review, Time, Wall Street Journal, Washington Post - The McKinsey Business Book of the Year

The full inside story of the breathtaking rise and shocking collapse of Theranos, the one-time multibillion-dollar biotech startup founded by Elizabeth Holmes--now the subject of the HBO documentary The Inventor--by the prize-winning journalist who first broke the story and pursued it to the end.

The story is even crazier than I expected, and I found myself unable to put it down once I started. This book has everything: elaborate scams, corporate intrigue, magazine cover stories, ruined family relationships, and the demise of a company once valued at nearly $10 billion. --Bill Gates

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.

A riveting story of the biggest corporate fraud since Enron, a tale of ambition and hubris set amid the bold promises of Silicon Valley.

JOHN CARREYROU is a two-time Pulitzer Prize-winning Wall Street Journal investigative reporter. Carreyrou won the George Polk Award for Financial Reporting, the Gerald Loeb Award for Outstanding Business and Financial Journalism in the category of beat reporting, and the Barlett & Steele Silver Award for Investigative Business Journalism for his thorough coverage of Theranos. Carreyrou, his wife, and their three children live in Brooklyn.

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ISBN 13 9781524731656
ISBN 10 152473165X
Title Bad Blood
Author John Carreyrou
Condition Unavailable
Binding Type Hardback
Publisher Alfred A. Knopf
Year published 2018-05-21
Number of pages 352
Prizes Winner of Financial Times and McKinsey Business Book of the Year Award 2018
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