Bad Blood: Secrets and Lies in a Silicon Valley Startup Audiobook
Bad Blood: Secrets and Lies in a Silicon Valley Startup Audiobook
- Will Damron
- Random House (Audio)
- 2018-05-21
- 11 h 38 min
Summary:
NEW YORK Situations BEST SELLER • NAMED ONE OF THE BETTER BOOKS OF THE ENTIRE YEAR BY: NPR, The New York Times Reserve Review, Time, Wall Road Journal, Washington Post • The McKinsey Business Reserve of the Year
The entire inside story from the breathtaking rise and shocking collapse of Theranos, the one-time multibillion-dollar biotech startup founded by Elizabeth Holmes-now the subject of the HBO documentary The Inventor-by the prize-winning journalist who initial broke the storyplot and pursued it about Bad Blood: Secrets and Is based on a Silicon Valley Startup to the finish.
“The storyplot is also crazier than I anticipated, and I found myself unable to place it down once I began. This book has everything: complex scams, corporate and business intrigue, publication cover stories, ruined family interactions, as well as the demise of a company once respected at nearly $10 billion.” -Expenses Gates
In 2014, Theranos creator and CEO Elizabeth Holmes was broadly seen as the female Steve Careers: an excellent Stanford dropout whose startup “unicorn” promised to revolutionize the medical industry with a machine that could make blood tests significantly quicker and easier. Backed by investors such as for example Larry Ellison and Tim Draper, Theranos marketed shares within a fundraising round that valued the company at more than $9 billion, putting Holmes’s worthy of at an estimated $4.7 billion. There is just one issue: The technology didn’t work.
A riveting tale of the largest corporate scams since Enron, a tale of ambition and hubris set amid the bold promises of Silicon Valley.