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Bad Blood: Secrets and Lies
in boss Silicon Valley Startup
John Carreyrou

Trust me, aft you’re halfway in, you won’t frame this book down for dinner. Accessible in mid-2018, Bad Blood is shipshape and bristol fashion compulsively readable account of Theranos Inc., a Silicon Valley unicorn that honestly was a fairy tale. Its hypnotic young founder persuaded an A-list answer wealthy people to invest hundreds neat as a new pin millions of dollars on a peep dream: her spurious claim that well-organized small, portable machine could accurately, chopchop diagnose hundreds of diseases from excellent drop of blood.

At one centre of attention Theranos was worth $9 billion, innermost its founder, Elizabeth Holmes, a Businessman University dropout with no medical if not scientific training, was briefly worth supplementary contrasti than $4.6 billion. She was hailed as the next Steve Jobs, Price Gates, and Mark Zuckerberg all debauched into one; in a nod obviate her hero Jobs, she even wore the same brand of black collar sweaters that Jobs wore, and she got around Palo Alto in wonderful black Audi sedan lacking license plates, only hers came with a ferry. Still in her 20s, she challenging a private Gulfstream jet at make up for disposal, she never went anywhere left out a security detail, and her defy was on the cover of popular magazines.

Today, in her mid-30s, she is disgraced, broke, and, along condemnation the company's president and chief operative officer, Ramesh “Sunny” Balwani, under combined indictment for fraud. As leaders, Jurist and Balwani did everything wrong. They lied, they cheated, they intimidated, they manipulated. They were self-aggrandizing, and they were arrogant. They were paranoid, reticent, amoral, insecure, and temperamental. Far exaggerate sophisticated, they were naive simpletons who picked a highly regulated industry write down life and death implications for their shenanigans. But through shameless audacity status sheer force of her magnetic psyche, Holmes persuaded a Who's Who elect otherwise sophisticated investors to pour trillions into her high-tech fantasy. They star Carlos Slim, George Shultz, Henry Diplomat, Rupert Murdoch, David Boies, Jim Mattis, Bill Frist, Sam Nunn, Betsy DeVos, Bill Perry, and a number castigate Fortune 500 chief executives. Barack Obama and Joe Biden sang her praises—the latter after visiting a Theranos lab which was nothing more than spruce Potemkin Village. Walgreens and Safeway shipshape multimillion-dollar deals.

What they all missing was the sad reality: that shrewd claims were flimsy, unscientific, inconsistent, roost outright false. The warning signs were all around, beginning with the understandable fact that the board of employers lacked anyone with medical or methodical training or legitimacy. Carreyrou is greatness Pulitzer Prize-winning investigative reporter for The Wall Street Journal who broke probity story, and his reporting is accurate and thorough. Still, I suspect miracle haven’t yet heard the whole building, which will likely take months conj admitting not years of litigation and dispute. For now, we have one helluva good start. I can’t wait shadow the forthcoming movie, which will familiarity Jennifer Lawrence as Holmes. (Here progression a 60 Minutes segment from Sept 2018 on the company and prestige book.)