Bad blood : secrets and lies in a Silicon Valley startup / John Carreyrou.

Carreyrou, John, author.

338.7681761 Carreyro

New York : Vintage Books, a division of Penguin Random House LLC, [2023]

©2020

x, 375 pages, 8 unnumbered pages of plates : illustrations ; 21 cm

"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. Backed by investors such as Larry Ellison and Tim Draper, Theranos sold shares in a fund-raising round that valued the company at $9 billion, putting Holmes's worth at an estimated $4.5 billion. There was just one problem: the technology didn't work. Erroneous results put patients in danger, leading to misdiagnoses and unnecessary treatments. All the while, Holmes and her partner, Sunny Balwani, worked to silence anyone who voiced misgivings-- from journalists to their own employees"-- Back cover.

Holmes, Elizabeth, 1984-

Theranos (Firm) -- History.

Hematologic equipment industry -- United States.

Fraud -- United States.

Secrets and lies in a Silicon Valley startup

Bad blood : With a post-sentencing afterword

Includes afterword ©2023.

"Originally published in hardcover in slightly different form in the United States by Alfred A Knopf, a division of Penguin Random House LLC, New York, in 2018." -- Title page verso.

"First Vintage Books edition, January 2020" -- Title page verso.

Includes bibliographical references (pages 341-360) and index.

Publisher varies.

Prologue -- A purposeful life -- The Gluebot -- Apple envy -- Goodbye East Paly -- The childhood neighbor -- Sunny -- Dr. J -- The miniLab -- The wellness play -- "Who is LTC Shoemaker?" -- Lighting a Fuisz -- Ian Gibbons -- Chiat\\Day -- Going live -- Unicorn -- The grandson -- Fame -- The Hippocratic Oath -- The tip -- The ambush -- Trade secrets -- La Mattanza -- Damage control -- The empress has no clothes -- Epilogue -- Afterword to the Vintage Books edition.