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>