Bad Blood: Secrets and Lies in a Silicon Valley Startup by two-time Pullitzer Prize winner and investigative reporter for The Wall Street Journal -> John Carreyrou
How Theranos? Elizabeth Holmes lost her way
The term vaporware was coined in the early 1980s to describe new computer software or hardware that was announced with great fanfare only to take years to materialize if it did at all. It was a reflection of the computer industry's tendency to pla...
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Bad Blood: Secrets and Lies in a Silicon Valley Startup by John Carreyrou
Bill Gates rated it -> really liked it I don’t read a lot of page turners. I often find myself unable to put a book down—but they’re not the kinds of books that would keep most people glued to their chairs. Still, I recently found myself reading a book so compelling that I couldn’t turn away. Bad Blood: Secrets and Lies in a Silicon Valley Startup by John Carreyrou details the rise and fall of Theranos. If you aren’t familiar with the Theranos story, here’s the short version: the company promised to quickly give you a complete picture of your health using only a small amount of blood. Elizabeth Holmes founded it when she was just 19 years old, and both she and Theranos quickly became the darlings of Silicon Valley. She gave massively popular TED talks and appeared on the covers of Forbes and Fortune...
These days, blood-testing startup Theranos is on its last legs.
The psychology of deception: How Elizabeth Holmes fooled everyone about Theranos for so long
If we end up with this story and say, it's one bad apple in one industry, that's a bad lesson, behavior expert Dan Ariely tells CNBC Make It. This is about the human condition.
Theranos founder Elizabeth Holmes worshipped Steve Jobs to the point where she wore black turtlenecks like he did.
