Bad Blood. The shocking true story of Elizabeth Holmes and the Theranos scandal

The shocking true investigation behind Nathan Fielder's You Can See Everything and The Dropout, from the award-winning journalist who first broke the story. Bad Blood details the breathtaking rise and fall of Theranos, the multibillion-dollar biotech startup founded by Elizabeth Holmes. Winner of the Financial Times/McKinsey Business Book of the Year Award 'A story so incredible you'd think it was fiction' – James Patterson 'A tale of corporate fraud and legal browbeating that reads like a crime thriller' – TIME Elizabeth Holmes was a brilliant Stanford dropout whose startup ‘unicorn’ Theranos promised to revolutionize the medical industry with a machine that would make blood testing faster and easier. Backed by wealthy investors, Theranos sold shares that valued the company at more than $9 billion. There was just one problem. The technology didn’t work. Despite threats of legal action, brave whistleblowers started to talk. They revealed a culture of intimidation and secrecy, technology that repeatedly failed, results sent to real patients that were incorrect but upon which life-changing medical decisions were being made, with devastating consequences. More relevant than ever,…

Издательство

Pan Macmillan

Год

2023

Страниц

401

Язык

английский

ISBN

9781035028627