Bad Blood
Edition: First Vintage Books Edition (1)
Publisher: Vintage Books
Published: 2020-01
Place of publication: New York
Language: eng
Format: Paperback
Number of pages: 341
ISBN-13: 9780525431992
Copyright date: 2020
Description: In 2014, Theranos founder and CEO Elizabeth Holmes was widely seen as the next Steve Jobs: a brilliant Stanford dropout whose startup "unicorn" promised to revolutionize the medical industry with its breakthrough device, which performed the whole range of laboratory tests from a single drop of blood. 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 $4.5 billion. There was just one problem: The technology didn't work. Erroneous results put patients in danger, leading to misdiagnoses and unnecessary treatments. All the while, Holmes and her partner, Sunny Balwani, worked to silence anyone who voiced misgivings—from journalists to their own employees.

Rigorously reported and fearlessly written, Bad Blood is a gripping story of the biggest corporate fraud since Enron—a tale of ambition and hubris set amid the bold promises of Silicon Valley.
Table of contents: title: Prologue --; title: A purposeful life --; title: The gluebot --; title: Apple envy --; title: Goodbye East Paly --; title: The childhood neighbor --; title: Sunny --; title: Dr. J --; title: The miniLab --; title: The wellness play --; title: "Who is LTC Shoemaker?" --; title: Lighting a Fuisz --; title: Ian Gibbons --; title: Chiat\Day --; title: Going live --; title: Unicorn --; title: The grandson --; title: Fame --; title: The Hippocratic Oath --; title: The tip --; title: The ambush --; title: Trade secrets --; title: La mattanza --; title: Damage control --; title: The empress has no clothes.