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“Corporate fraud collides with Silicon Valley ambitions”

This book is a must-read for anyone interested in the inner workings of startup culture and what can go terribly wrong. Carreyrou masterfully tells the story of Elizabeth Holmes and Theranos, the Silicon Valley unicorn that wasn't. The book is a thrilling account of a corporate scandal, combined with a lesson on the importance of ethics and honest leadership.

  • Los Angeles Times Book Prize Nominee for Current Interest (2018)
  • Financial Times Business Book of the Year (2018)
  • Goodreads Choice Award Nominee for Nonfiction (2018)
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ISBN: 9781509868087
Authors: John Carreyrou
Publisher: Picador
Date of Publication: 2019-01-01
Format: Paperback
Related Collections: Science, Biographies & Memoirs, Business, History
Goodreads rating: 4.41
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Winner of the Financial Times/McKinsey Business Book of the Year Award 2018. The full inside story of the breathtaking rise and shocking collapse of Theranos, the multibillion-dollar biotech startup founded by Elizabeth Holmes, by the prize-winning journalist who first broke the story and pursued it to the end, despite pressure from its charismatic CEO and threats by her lawyers. In 2014, Theranos founder and CEO Elizabeth Holmes was widely seen as the female Steve Jobs: a brilliant Stanford dropout whose startup "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. In Bad Blood, John Carreyrou tells the riveting story of the biggest corporate fraud since Enron, a tale of ambition and hubris set amid the bold promises of Silicon Valley.
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“Corporate fraud collides with Silicon Valley ambitions”

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  • Los Angeles Times Book Prize Nominee for Current Interest (2018)
  • Financial Times Business Book of the Year (2018)
  • Goodreads Choice Award Nominee for Nonfiction (2018)
Note: While we do our best to ensure the accuracy of cover images, ISBNs may at times be reused for different editions of the same title which may hence appear as a different cover.