‘I couldn’t deposit this thriller . an ideal book to read by the fireplace this winter.’ Bill Gates, ‘5 books I cherished in 2018’

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The full inside story of the breathtaking rise and shocking collapse of Theranos, the multibillion-dollar biotech startup, with the prize-winning journalist who first broke the story and pursued it to the finish, despite pressure from its charismatic CEO and threats by her attorneys.

In 2014, about Poor Bloodstream: Secrets and Lies in a Silicon Valley Startup Theranos founder and CEO Elizabeth Holmes was widely seen as the feminine Steve Jobs: a brilliant Stanford dropout whose startup ‘unicorn’ promised to revolutionize the medical industry with a machine that would make blood screening significantly faster and easier. Backed by investors such as for example Larry Ellison and Tim Draper, Theranos offered shares inside a fundraising round that valued the company at a lot more than $9 billion, putting Holmes’s worthy of at around $4.7 billion. There was just one problem: The technology didn’t function.

In Bad Blood, John Carreyrou tells the riveting tale of the largest commercial fraud since Enron, an account of ambition and hubris established amid the vivid promises of Silicon Valley.

Now to be adapted into a film, with Jennifer Lawrence to celebrity.

‘Chilling . . . Reads such as a West Coast version of All the President’s Guys.’ NY Times Reserve Review