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The full inside story of the breathtaking rise and shocking collapse of Theranos, the one-time multibillion-dollar biotech startup founded by Elizabeth Holmes -- now the subject of the HBO documentary The Inventor -- by the prize-winning journalist who first broke the story and pursued it to the end...

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Main Author: Carreyrou, John (Author)
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Language:English
Published: 2018.
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Hematologic equipment industry > United States.
Fraud > United States.
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Summary:The full inside story of the breathtaking rise and shocking collapse of Theranos, the one-time multibillion-dollar biotech startup founded by Elizabeth Holmes -- now the subject of the HBO documentary The Inventor -- by the prize-winning journalist who first broke the story and pursued it to the end. "The story is even crazier than I expected, and I found myself unable to put it down once I started. This book has everything: elaborate scams, corporate intrigue, magazine cover stories, ruined family relationships, and the demise of a company once valued at nearly $10 billion." -- Bill Gates 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.
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ISBN:9781524731663
Author Notes:John Carreyrou is an American journalist and author. He was born in New York and raised in Paris. He graduated from Duke University in 1994 with a B.A. in political science and government. He has worked for The Wall Street Journal since 1999. Currently, he is based in New York, but has worked in Brussels and Paris. He has covered a wide number of topics. He was part of a team that won a Pulitzer Prize for Explanatory Reporting, for covering corporate scandals. In 2015, he and several colleagues wrote a series of articles on fraud and Medicare, for which they won the Pulitzer Prize for Investigative Reporting. He won the George Polk, Gerald Loeb, and Bartlett & Steele awards for his coverage of the company Theranos.

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