The full inside story of the breathtaking rise and shocking collapse of Theranos, the multibillion-dollar biotech startup, by the prize-winning journalist who first broke the story and pursued it to the end, despite pressure from its charismatic CEO and threats by her lawyers.
"Crime thriller authors have nothing on Carreyrou's exquisite sense of suspenseful pacing and multifaceted character development in this riveting, read-in-one-sitting tour de force....Carreyrou's commitment to unraveling Holmes' crimes was literally of life-saving value." -Booklist
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 testing 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 more than $9 billion, putting Holmes's worth at an estimated $4.7 billion. There was just one problem: The technology didn't work.
A riveting story of the biggest corporate fraud since Enron, a tale of ambition and hubris set amid the bold promises of Silicon Valley.
Author(s): John Carreyrou
Edition: 1
Publisher: Knopf
Year: 2018
Language: English
Pages: 352\0
Title Page
Copyright
Contents
Dedication
Author’s Note
Prologue
1. A Purposeful Life
2. The Gluebot
3. Apple Envy
4. Goodbye East Paly
5. The Childhood Neighbor
6. Sunny
7. Dr. J
8. The miniLab
9. The Wellness Play
10. “Who Is LTC Shoemaker?”
11. Lighting a Fuisz
12. Ian Gibbons
13. Chiat\Day
14. Going Live
15. Unicorn
16. The Grandson
17. Fame
18. The Hippocratic Oath
19. The Tip
20. The Ambush
21. Trade Secrets
22. La Mattanza
23. Damage Control
24. The Empress Has No Clothes
Epilogue
Acknowledgments
Notes
About the Author
