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In 2014, Theranos founder and CEO Elizabeth Holmes was widely seen as the female Steve Jobs: 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 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 $4.7 billion. There was just one problem: The technology didn't work
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Bad Blood, John Carreyrou
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- Released
- 2018
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- Title
- Bad Blood
- Language
- English
- Authors
- John Carreyrou
- Publisher
- Pan Macmillan
- Released
- 2018
- Format
- Hardcover
- Pages
- 320
- ISBN10
- 1509868062
- ISBN13
- 9781509868063
- Series
- Tags
- Non-Fiction, True Stories, Business, Biographies, Self-Help, Gifts for women, Entrepreneurship, Blood, Deception, illusion, Silicon Valley
- First published
- 2018
- Original title
- Bad Blood: Secrets and Lies in a Silicon Valley Startup
- Rating
- 4.45 out of 5
- Description
- In 2014, Theranos founder and CEO Elizabeth Holmes was widely seen as the female Steve Jobs: 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 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 $4.7 billion. There was just one problem: The technology didn't work