Bad Blood: Secrets and Lies in a Silicon Valley Startup Audiobook (Free)
- Will Damron
- Random House (Audio)
- 2018-05-21
Summary:
NEW YORK Instances BEST Vendor • NAMED ONE OF THE BEST BOOKS OF THE ENTIRE YEAR BY: NPR, THE BRAND NEW York Times Reserve Review, Time, Wall structure Road Journal, Washington Post • The McKinsey Business Book of the entire year
The entire inside story of the breathtaking rise and shocking collapse of Theranos, the one-time multibillion-dollar biotech startup founded by Elizabeth Holmes-now the subject of the HBO documentary The Inventor-by the prize-winning journalist who first broke the story and pursued it about Bad Bloodstream: Secrets and Lies in a Silicon Valley Startup to the finish.
“The story is also crazier than I anticipated, and I came across myself unable to place it down once I began. This book provides everything: intricate scams, corporate and business intrigue, publication cover tales, ruined family interactions, as well as the demise of the company once appreciated at almost $10 billion.” -Expenses Gates
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 market with a machine that would make blood testing significantly quicker and easier. Supported by investors such as for example Larry Ellison and Tim Draper, Theranos sold shares inside a fundraising round that valued the business at a lot more than $9 billion, placing Holmes’s worth at an estimated $4.7 billion. There is just one problem: The technology didn’t function.
A riveting tale of the largest corporate scams since Enron, an account of ambition and hubris set amid the striking promises of Silicon Valley.
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