All the while, Holmes and her partner, Sunny Balwani, worked to silence anyone who voiced misgivings - from journalists to their own employees. Erroneous results put patients in danger, leading to misdiagnoses and unnecessary treatments. There was just one problem: the technology didn’t work. 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 $4.5 billion. His first book, Bad Blood: Secrets and Lies in a Silicon Valley Startup, chronicles Silicon Valleys biggest fraud. In 2014, Theranos founder and CEO Elizabeth Holmes was widely seen as the next Steve Jobs: a brilliant Stanford dropout whose startup “unicorn” promised to revolutionize the medical industry with its breakthrough device, which performed the whole range of laboratory tests from a single drop of blood. John Carreyrou is a Pulitzer Prize-winning reporter and a nonfiction author. In this book, you will learn the gripping story of Elizabeth Holmes and Theranos - one of the biggest corporate frauds in history - a tale of ambition and hubris set amid the bold promises of Silicon Valley, rigorously reported by the author and prize-winning journalist John Carreyrou. Bad Blood: Secrets and Lies in a Silicon Valley Startup Kindle Edition by John Carreyrou (Author) Format: Kindle Edition 14,329 ratings See all formats and editions Kindle Edition 13.99 Read with Our Free App Audiobook 0.00 Free with your Audible trial Great on Kindle Great Experience.
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