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Bad blood : secrets and lies in a Silicon Valley startup /

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 tests significantly faster and easier. Backed by investors s...

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Bibliographic Details
Main Author: Carreyrou, John (Author)
Format: Book
Language:English
Published: New York : Alfred A. Knopf, [2018]
Edition:First edition.
Subjects:
Holmes, Elizabeth, > 1984-
Theranos (Firm) > History.
Hematologic equipment industry > United States.
New business enterprises > Corrupt practices > United States > Cases.
Securities fraud > United States > Cases.
BUSINESS & ECONOMICS > Entrepreneurship.
BUSINESS & ECONOMICS > Finance.
TECHNOLOGY & ENGINEERING > Biomedical.
Table of Contents:
  • A purposeful life
  • The gluebot
  • Apple envy
  • Goodbye East Paly
  • The childhood neighbor
  • Sunny
  • Dr. J
  • The miniLab
  • The wellness play
  • "Who is LTC Shoemaker?"
  • Lighting a Fuisz
  • Ian Gibbons
  • Chiat Day
  • Going live
  • Unicorn
  • The grandson
  • Fame
  • The Hippocratic Oath
  • The tip
  • The ambush
  • Trade secrets
  • La mattanza
  • Damage control
  • The empress has no clothes
  • Epilogue.