
John Carreyrou - Bad Blood (Secrets & Lies in a Silicon Valley Startup) (2nd Hand Paperback)
Synopsis
Named one of the Best Books of The Year by : The New York Times Book Review, Time, Wall Street Journal & Washington Post. The McKinsey Business Book of the Year 2018.
The Story of Elizabeth Holmes & Theranos.
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 The Inventor - by the prize-winning journalist who first broke the story and pursued it to the end.
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 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.
Details
- Format : Standard 2nd Hand Paperback
- Condition : As New
- Category : Non-Fiction - Economics, Business & Money
- Published : 2018 (Picador)
- ISBN : 9781509868087
- SKU : B002127
- PPC : SP350gm
- RRP : £9.99
- Quantity Available : 1 only.
External Reviews
"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.
The Author
John Carreyrou is a Pulitzer Prize winning French-American journalist and writer. He worked for The Wall Street Journal for 20 years between 1999 and 2019 and has been based in Brussels, Paris, and New York City.