Bad Blood: The Rise and Fall of Theranos
Author: John Carreyrou
“Hyping your product to get funding while concealing your true progress and hoping that reality will eventually catch up to the hype continues to be tolerated in the tech industry.”
Beginning with Elizabeth Holmes’ personal background and ending with her resolving fraud charges with the Securities and Exchange Commission, John Carreyrou explains the whole spine-chilling story based on the considerable investigation he performed for the 30 pieces his newspaper published. The author does a fantastic job reconstructing Theranos’ narrative. The novel is intriguing and holds your interest until the very end.
Here’s a thing, this 19-year-old bright girl; realizes very soon what she wants in her life (to become a billionaire — perfect), gets a brilliant idea, works hard towards it, admires Steve Jobs, has amazing networking skills and uses them very well… BUT all these efforts down the wrong path. I can’t believe she wasted her entire life by first creating this facade and then getting rid of it. I mean, what were you thinking woman?
