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Bad Blood

Secrets and Lies in a Silicon Valley Startup
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Jan 14, 2024Pasha333 rated this title 4.5 out of 5 stars
What a book! If this story was fictional I would have difficulty believing it was feasible. But this true story tells an unbelievable tale. It describes a convoluted path that Elizabeth Holmes followed in creating the company Theranos Inc.…
Aug 13, 2023Arunothia15 rated this title 5 out of 5 stars
Wow, this book presents a more gripping and suspenseful storyline than the majority of fictional novels I've encountered. I'm still finding it hard to accept the reality that such a fraudulent scheme actually took place. A company that…
Jun 11, 20231812jbp rated this title 5 out of 5 stars
A very well written book. Well documented and easy to read. Most informative. It amazed me how this one person pulled off such a fraudulent scheme. Elizabeth Holmes obviously has no conscience.
May 31, 2023
As she heads to prison......ambition gone wrong.
Mar 05, 2023TWDAY71 rated this title 5 out of 5 stars
For starters, any young person who read Steve Jobs' biography and was "inspired" is someone to avoid at all costs. Holmes not only took inspiration from Jobs' self-serving, self-promoting career, she adopted his bullying,…
Jan 12, 2023katjespin rated this title 4 out of 5 stars
Exhaustively researched and thoroughly fact-checked, although the writing itself can occasionally be overblown. The most stunning thing about the whole debacle is not that credulous billionaires and companies kept shoveling money at…
Oct 06, 2022HPL_Teen_Volunteer1 rated this title 4 out of 5 stars
Bad Blood by John Carreyrou is a book about the rise and fall of Theranos which was a multibillion dollar startup founded by Elizabeth Holmes. Theranos was a medical startup company that was supposed to revolutionize the medical industry…
Feb 27, 2022Ginamarguerite rated this title 5 out of 5 stars
Wow! I live in the San Francisco Bay area and had no idea what was going on until there was all the coverage on the Holmes trial. On one of the news shows they mentioned Carreyrou's book and I had to get it to find out what all the news…
Feb 19, 2022Coffee21 rated this title 5 out of 5 stars
Wow! This book read like a thriller; despite it being nonfiction! I couldn't put it down. The investigation and documenting of the events of Theranos and it's staff was top-notch!
Jan 25, 2022Kimberleygray rated this title 5 out of 5 stars
In my career I have worked with many start ups so I was not surprised by the personality of Holmes. So many are arrogant and tell you inflated stories of how good the technology is. This is why it is so important to have a neutral group…
Jan 03, 2022jhcon rated this title 5 out of 5 stars
A great in-depth investigation at something that would otherwise not be looked at so closely. It tells a great story, especially for a non-fiction book.
Jan 03, 2022camrynstobart rated this title 5 out of 5 stars
Absolutely incredible book. Carreyrou does a fantastic job of providing the reader with facts while entrancing them with the story to keep them reading. Would absolutely recommend to anyone that loves true crime, investigative journalism…
Dec 19, 2021art072759 rated this title 5 out of 5 stars
Excellent book, well written and meticulously researched. Even as non-fiction, kept interest throughout reading.
Nov 29, 2021mapleMVlib rated this title 4 out of 5 stars
Great read. Go to his podcast after to follow up on current updates and extra background to the book details. A winning combo. He has a good narration voice also. What a satisfying time he must have had bring this fraud down. He give rich…
Nov 28, 2021red_hamster_508 rated this title 5 out of 5 stars
Great book about Theranos and how it made too many promises it could not keep. The first chapters are a little boring but sets up a great payoff towards the end. The delivery of Theranos from its inception to being exposed was absolutely…
Aug 26, 2021puckzilla23 rated this title 3.5 out of 5 stars
The first half was dry AF. But finally started getting interesting in the last handful of chapters. Maybe because I’ve already listened to a lot of podcasts and documentaries about this but until you get into the author’s part of the…
Aug 09, 2021pacl_teens rated this title 5 out of 5 stars
"Bad Blood: Secrets and Lies in A Silicon Valley Startup by John Carreyrou is a meticulously detailed narrative of the meteoric rise and equally sudden downfall of the breakthrough biotech startup Theranos. In this exposé, Carreyrou…
Jul 16, 2021Cidherman rated this title 5 out of 5 stars
This true story about the meteoric rise of Silicon Valley darling, Theranos, is absolutely fascinating. This book, which began as a Wall Street Journal investigation, uncovers, with perfect pacing detail, the appalling business practices…
Jun 22, 2021arapahoekbarton rated this title 5 out of 5 stars
Bad Blood is one of my all-time favorite nonfiction books. It's shocking and fascinating how Elizabeth Holmes is able to build an empire built on a falsehood. Carreyrou's research and detail are incredible, and he gives the reader a peek…
Jun 06, 2021Vanessa72 rated this title 4.5 out of 5 stars
Totally mesmerizing book about Elizabeth Holmes and Theranos. Elizabeth is the type of person that has remarkable ideas, ones that seemed to evolve from science fiction (i.e. Star Trek), and drive her to have her ideas created physically.…
Apr 29, 2021stewstealth rated this title 4.5 out of 5 stars
Impeccably written account of a huge Silicon Valley fraud perpetrated by Elizabeth Holmes that catches some extremely wealthy and well known persons. Reads like a thriller. Worth the read if you are interested.
Mar 20, 2021Andreaquach rated this title 5 out of 5 stars
Bad Blood, by John Carreyrou This tell all book unravels all the scandals behind the scenes of this Silicon Valley startup, Theranos. Theranos promised great blood testing technology that would change the medical world as we know it;…
Jan 12, 2021kathleenwyatt rated this title 5 out of 5 stars
Absolutely riveting. A true story that has Trumpian overtones, as the heroine has a similar focused and sociopathic view of her mission. Her mission, by the way, is to become rich, but she has a believable story to tell about her…
Oct 30, 2020pateljh rated this title 5 out of 5 stars
This is scary book! Ordinary employees get threatened by firm's lawyers, private investigators and so forth. The company Theranos almost acted like a mafia boss to its employees. It is hard to believe two human beings, the main…
Sep 21, 2020mmyjer20 rated this title 4 out of 5 stars
I listened to this in the car. It was good. Seemed like a good investigation that sort of took over the authors life so quite a while. Interesting