Bad Blood: Secrets and Lies in a Silicon Valley Startup

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Amazon Business : For business-only pricing, quantity discounts and FREE Shipping. Register a free business account Hardcover: 352 pages Publisher: Knopf; 1 edition (May 21, 2018) Language: English ISBN-10: 152473165X ISBN-13: 978-1524731656 Product Dimensions: 6.4 x 1.3 x 9.5 inches Shipping Weight: 1.5 pounds (View shipping rates and policies)

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NEW YORK TIMES BEST SELLER â€¢Â NAMED ONE OF THE BEST BOOKS OF THE YEAR BY: NPR,Â The New York Times Book Review, Time, Wall Street Journal, Washington Post â€¢ The McKinsey Business Book of the Year The full inside story of the breathtaking rise and shocking collapse of Theranos, the one-time multibillion-dollar biotech startup founded by Elizabeth Holmesâ€”now the subject of the HBO documentary The Inventorâ€”by the prize-winning journalist who first broke the story and pursued it to the end. â€œThe 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.â€ â€”Bill Gates In 2014, Theranos founder and CEO Elizabeth Holmes was widely seen as the female Steve Jobs: a brilliant Stanford dropout whose startup â€œunicornâ€ 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 Holmesâ€™s worth at an estimated $4.7 billion. There was just one problem: The technology didnâ€™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.

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