Bad Blood (eBook)

Secrets and Lies in a Silicon Valley Startup: The Story of Elizabeth Holmes and the Theranos Scandal

John Carreyrou (Autor)

eBook Download: EPUB

2023
Pan Macmillan (Verlag)
978-1-0350-2862-7 (ISBN)

Infos

'I couldn't put down this thriller . . . a book so compelling that I couldn't turn away' - Bill Gates'A story so incredible you'd think it was fiction' - James PattersonWinner of the Financial Times/McKinsey Business Book of the Year Award.The shocking true story of the breathtaking rise and collapse of Theranos, the multibillion-dollar biotech startup founded by Elizabeth Holmes, written by the prize-winning journalist who first broke the story and pursued it to the end.Seen as the female Steve Jobs, Theranos founder and CEO Elizabeth Holmes was 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 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.The riveting story behind The Dropout, in Bad Blood, John Carreyrou investigates the biggest corporate fraud since Enron, a tale of ambition and scandal set amid the bold promises of Silicon Valley.'A tale of corporate fraud and legal browbeating that reads like a crime thriller' - TIME, The 10 Best Nonfiction Books of the Year

Produkt-Details

• Erscheint lt. Verlag: 30.3.2023
• Sprache: englisch
• Themenwelt: Literatur ► Biografien / Erfahrungsberichte
• Themenwelt: Literatur ► Essays / Feuilleton
• Themenwelt: Recht / Steuern ► Strafrecht ► Kriminologie
• Themenwelt: Sozialwissenschaften ► Soziologie
• Themenwelt: Technik ► Umwelttechnik / Biotechnologie
• ISBN-10: 1-0350-2862-X / 103502862X
• ISBN-13: 978-1-0350-2862-7 / 9781035028627