TY  - BOOK
AU  - Carreyrou, John
TI  - Bad blood: : secrets and lies in a silicon valley startup
SN  - 9781509868087
U1  - 338.7681761 
PY  - 2018///
CY  - London
PB  - Picador 
KW  - Hematologic equipment industry
KW  - Securities fraud
N2  - 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.

In Bad Blood, John Carreyrou tells the riveting story of the biggest corporate fraud since Enron, a tale of ambition and hubris set amid the bold promises of Silicon Valley
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