![]() ![]() ![]() ![]() After reading his book, and watching a few videos of Elizabeth Holmes in action, speaking about Theranos, I don't think she is a sociopath. All the while, Holmes and her partner, Sunny Balwani, worked to silence anyone who voiced misgivings - from journalists to their own employees. But in the closing pages of Bad Blood: Secrets and Lies in a Silicon Valley Startup, Pulitzer Prize winning author John Carreyrou, suggests Elizabeth Holmes might actually be a sociopath. Erroneous results put patients in danger, leading to misdiagnoses and unnecessary treatments. : Bad Blood: Secrets and Lies in a Silicon Valley Startup (9781509868087) by Carreyrou, John and a great selection of similar New, Used and Collectible Books available now at great prices. There was just one problem: the technology didn’t work. 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 $4.5 billion. In 2014, Theranos founder and CEO Elizabeth Holmes was widely seen as the next Steve Jobs: a brilliant Stanford dropout whose startup “unicorn” promised to revolutionize the medical industry with its breakthrough device, which performed the whole range of laboratory tests from a single drop of blood. In this book, you will learn the gripping story of Elizabeth Holmes and Theranos - one of the biggest corporate frauds in history - a tale of ambition and hubris set amid the bold promises of Silicon Valley, rigorously reported by the author and prize-winning journalist John Carreyrou. ![]()
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