Bad Blood

Secrets and Lies in a Silicon Valley Startup

By: John Carreyrou

Business & Economics

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 such as larry ellison and tim draper, theranos sold shares in a fundraising round that valued the company at...