In also covers the war Theranos waged as the walls slowly started closing in on their fraud. While a number of articles have profiled the big issues - they were lying, duh - Bad Blood does a deep dive into the company’s culture and the thousand small decisions that preceded Theranos’ downfall. It’s a saga that ensnared a range of tech, legal, political and other industry leaders such as Henry Kissinger, Rupert Murdoch, and our current Secretary of Defense John Mattis. Over the course of a decade, it ballooned to a valuation of almost $10 billion, but within a few short years was defunct once it became clear their technology was not what they claimed. It claimed to offer faster, cheaper blood tests from just a pinprick of blood ( see their demonstration on YouTube), as opposed to traditional methods which require needles, lab equipment and technicians. For the Detailed Chapter-By-Chapter Summary, click here or scroll all the way down.īad Blood covers the fall of Theranos, a startup that was founded by Stanford drop-out Elizabeth Holmes when she was nineteen.
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