The fundamental premise “was to help people, and not to harm them,” Walgreens recounted, in a legal brief that sounded stunned.
I’m really glad I did because this was really good. Bad Blood: Secrets and Lies in a Silicon Valley Startup by John Carreyrou is a 2018 Knopf Publishing Group publication. It has all the elements of a good fictional thriller, but what makes this story most shocking and intriguing -- is the fact that it really happened. I often find myself unable to put a book down—but they’re not the kinds of books that would keep most people glued to their chairs. by Knopf Publishing Group Exhaustively reported. I love the imagination of fiction. Holmes also pleaded with Rupert Murdoch — the power behind The Wall Street Journal and, as it happened, her biggest investor — to kill the story. I followed the Elizabeth Holmes/Theranos story slightly but this book does such a fantastic job of showing how completely banana pants this situation was. 152473165X
Just wow. In describing these many players he sometimes relies on stereotypes. The details in this book will leave you shaking in your boots when you realize the scale of Elizabeth Holmes’ deception and the impact it might have had on public health.
Federal regulators, already on the trail, found numerous violations, including sloppy lab procedures and unreliable equipment. The founders’ mission was to cure aging. The company was the subject of adoring media profiles; it attracted a who’s who of retired politicos to its board, among them George Shultz and Henry Kissinger. Really good book, would totally recommend, personally could not look away from this god damn train wreck of a situation that was entirely preventable.Bad Blood: Secrets and Lies in a Silicon Valley Startup by John Carreyrou is a 2018 Knopf Publishing Group publication. The V.I.P. Published Here, it's aimed at the bizarre cult of Elizabeth Holmes and her "disruptive" "game changing" cJust when I thought all reporters ever did anymore was see what was trending on social media and write stories with titles like "You'll cheer how this mom clapped-back at her body-shamers on Twitter," this book gives me hope that old-fashioned investigative journalism is alive and well and doing exactly what it's supposed to: shine an unflinching hot light on those who abuse their power and privilege. The point is that Theranos isn't simply an outlier in the Silicon Valley but an epitome of the often overhyped startup culture that idolizes entrepreneurs and self-made billionaires. In fact, it went further. Here, it's aimed at the bizarre cult of Elizabeth Holmes and her "disruptive" "game changing" company, Theranos.Oh, Silicon Valley, the place of realized dreams and sometimes of unexpected nightmares.Oh, Silicon Valley, the place of realized dreams and sometimes of unexpected nightmares.John Carreyrou is a Pulitzer Prize-winning reporter and a nonfiction author.
I’ll leave it to the psychologists to decide whether Holmes fits the clinical profile, but there’s no question that her moral compass was badly askew. Goodreads helps you keep track of books you want to read. Oh well. In her black turtlenecks, she even dressed like Jobs. By all accounts, she had a vision that she genuinely believed in and threw herself into realizing. Elizabeth told the gathered employees that she was building a religion. High LDL cholesterol levels? He feels a “familiar rush” when he hears that patient false negatives could be life threatening — i.e., that he’s onto a big story.In the end, Carreyrou got the Boies treatment — angry (but ultimately hollow) threats of a lawsuit. WHAT? Shultz helped his grandson land a job; when the kid reported back that the place was rotten, Grandpa didn’t believe him. She dropped out of Standford and started her own company. Not only an incredible story, but Carreyrou does an absolutely wonderful job in telling it. Privilege is a hell of Fascinating accounting of the Theranos scam and I do mean SCAM. How does a woman who was once lauded as the youngest self-made female billionaire find herself now broke and charged with fraud? Or any other number of disorders. It's the exact kind of investigative story that I find fascinating filled with strange figures, secrecy, and moments that will make you say "how is that possible?!" It's the exact kind of investigative story that I find fascinating filled with strange figures, secrecy, and moments that will make you say "how is that possible?!" Fishy excuses — Holmes blamed a production delay on an earthquake in Japan — were blithely accepted. She would Implement, invent and sell a small machine that would only take a pin prick of blood, getting instantaneous results that would allow doctors to make medication changes, much more quickly. Before all the books and documentaries and stuff.