Bad Blood : Secrets and Lies in a Silicon Valley Startup Carreyrou John (2022)

Bad Blood is the riveting true story of the breathtaking rise and shocking collapse of Theranos, the multibillion-dollar biotech startup founded by Elizabeth Holmes, told by the prize-winning journalist who first broke the story and pursued it to the end despite pressure from its charismatic CEO and threats from her lawyers. In 2014, 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 including Larry Ellison and Tim Draper, Theranos sold shares in a fundraising round that valued the company at more than $9 billion, making Holmess estimated fortune $4.7 billion. There was just one problem: the technology did not work. John Carreyrou recounts the story of the biggest corporate fraud since Enron, a tale of ambition and hubris set amid the bold promises of Silicon Valley.