Bad Blood Secrets and Lies in a Silicon Valley Startup

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Publisher's Synopsis

'I couldn't put down this thriller . . . a book so compelling that I couldn't turn away' - Bill Gates

'A story so incredible you'd think it was fiction' - James Patterson

Winner of the Financial Times/McKinsey Business Book of the Year Award.


The shocking true story of the breathtaking rise and collapse of Theranos, the multibillion-dollar biotech startup founded by Elizabeth Holmes, written by the prize-winning journalist who first broke the story and pursued it to the end.

Seen as the female Steve Jobs, Theranos founder and CEO Elizabeth Holmes was 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 wealthy investors, Theranos sold shares that valued the company at more than $9 billion.

There was just one problem: the technology didn't work . . .

Despite threats of legal action, brave whistleblowers started to talk. They revealed a culture of intimidation and secrecy, technology that repeatedly failed, results sent to real patients that were incorrect but upon which life-changing medical decisions were being made, with devastating consequences.

The riveting story behind The Dropout, in Bad Blood, John Carreyrou investigates the biggest corporate fraud since Enron, a tale of ambition and scandal set amid the bold promises of Silicon Valley.

'A tale of corporate fraud and legal browbeating that reads like a crime thriller' - TIME, The 10 Best Nonfiction Books of the Year

About the Publisher

Picador

Picador

Picador publishes outstanding international writing, fiction and non-fiction, in both hardback and paperback, and has numerous prize winners on its list. Picador has established a reputation for literary fiction with a broad commercial appeal, groundbreaking non-fiction, (particularly, reportage, literary biography and memoir) and a formidable poetry list, which has consistently won many of the major prizes.

Book information

ISBN: 9781035006779
Publisher: Pan Macmillan
Imprint: Picador
Pub date:
Edition: New edition
DEWEY: 338.7681761
DEWEY edition: 23
Language: English
Number of pages: 400
Weight: 282g
Height: 129mm
Width: 197mm
Spine width: 27mm