bad blood: secrets and lies in a silicon valley startup  <p><b><i>new york times</i></b><b> best seller </b></p> <p><b>named one of the best books of the year by: npr, </b><b><i>the new york times book review</i></b><b>, </b><b><i>time</i></b><b>, </b><b><i>wall street journal</i></b><b>, </b><b><i>washington post</i></b> </p> <p><b>the mckinsey business book of the year</b> </p> <p>the full inside story of the breathtaking rise and shocking collapse of theranos, the one-time multibillion-dollar biotech start-up founded by elizabeth holmes - now the subject of the hbo documentary <i>the inventor - </i>by the prize-winning journalist who first broke the story and pursued it to the end. </p> <p>“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)</p> <p>in 2014, theranos founder and ceo elizabeth holmes was widely seen as the female steve jobs: a brilliant stanford dropout whose start-up “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 fund-raising round that valued the company at more than $9 billion, putting holmes’ 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.</p>