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In 2014, Theranos founder and CEO Elizabeth Holmes was once broadly noticed as the following Steve Jobs: a sensible Stanford dropout whose startup “unicorn” promised to revolutionize the scientific business with its step forward tool, which carried out the entire vary of laboratory exams from a unmarried drop of blood. Sponsored via buyers reminiscent of Larry Ellison and Tim Draper, Theranos offered stocks in a fundraising spherical that valued the corporate at greater than $nine billion, placing Holmes’s price at an anticipated $four.5 billion. There was once only one downside: The generation didn’t paintings. Misguided effects positioned sufferers in peril, resulting in misdiagnoses and pointless remedies. The entire at the same time as, Holmes and her spouse, Sunny Balwani, labored to silence any individual who voiced misgivings—from reporters to their very own workers.
Conscientiously stated and fearlessly written, Bad Blood is a gripping story of the most important company fraud considering the fact that Enron—a story of ambition and hubris set amid the daring guarantees of Silicon Valley.
