Bad Blood: Secrets and Lies in a Silicon Valley Startup
Publisher,Pan MacMillan
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Format, Paperback
Weight, 420 g
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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.
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.
Riveting story. Easy to read
It’s like reading a juicy gossip magazine, the author thoughtfully written the storyline to give us goosebumps and so hard to put the book down. Very well recommended! Moral of this book keep your passion straight and be honest while working on it, dont take shortcut!
A fascinating account of the Theranos affair. If it wasn't true, it could have been a taut thriller. Ambition + greed lead to the initial success and doom of Theranos, in my opinion. The two main characters, Elizabeth Holmes and Sunny Balwani take the main stage in the whole affair, and reading this account makes me wonder if both were guilty of manipulation of each other and others around them, who placed their trust in Holmes vision. A must read.
This book was fascinating to me combined business, where people theoretically in make a rational, well informed decisions, and a toxic start up culture, in which secrecy, nepotism & sleight of hand let people untrained in medicine to get so far with a fraudlent medical company. This book is unique & fantastic piece of writing, highly recommend!
This story is about the youngest woman, Elizabeth Holmes who become a self-made billionaire, and the giant fraud she committed on Silicon Valley. She was a master manipulator and a dynamic force to be dealt with. She was charismatic and brilliant but couldn't accept failure.
It amazes me that one person can deceive so many. It shows how far some people are ready to go to achieve whatever "achievement or goal" they set for themselves even at the expense of other people's lives.