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Bad Blood: Secrets and Lies in a Silicon Valley Startup

by John Carreyrou

The blood-test empire that never worked.

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Theranos promised to run hundreds of medical tests from a single drop of blood, and for a decade the world believed it. Carreyrou, the Wall Street Journal reporter who broke the story, shows how a charismatic founder, a famous board and a wall of lawyers kept a machine that did not work in front of investors, patients and the press. It is a thriller about fraud, and it is also a case study in how money, prestige and intimidation can outrun the truth.

Where This Book Lives

Setting
United States • North America
Voice
Written by an American author
Themes
complicitycouragepolitical corruption

Pass with note. Single-company story, so it argues by example, not by system; and the book is a reporter's account, which Theranos's lawyers tried hard to suppress. Carreyrou has no documented concerns. Patients were harmed by faulty results. Gap-filler for tech-hype and corporate-fraud on the capital shelf. Close relatives: The Big Short, Too Big to Fail, Empire of Pain (suggested 10-14) and The Nerd Reich.