Balwani served as the sidekick villain of this story. But Theranos, specifically the COO, Sunny Balwani, was not having it. You see, once Carreyrou began putting this story together, he had a few former Theranos employees who were interested in speaking to him. It was weird, I wouldn’t have expected to put this book in the thriller category, but it had me on the edge of my seat enough times that I’m totally going to put it there. You like nonfiction, thrillers, mysteries, and books that move at a fast pace. It’s a crazy ride of a massive Silicon Valley fraud, but I was totally here for it. As the reporter at the Wall Street Journal who broke the story, he also share the behind the scenes look at the threats he received and the lengths Theranos went to to try to avoid getting this story published. John Carreyrou, the author and the ivestigative reporter tells the story of how Theranos was built up and how it began crumbling down. Forced to sign an NDA and immediately escorted off of the premises.Īnd this all happens within the first 10 minutes of the book. Except, when they went to tell her this, they were fired. They would run countless tests only to discover that what Elizabeth Holmes wanted to accomplish just wouldn’t work. Every time Theranos employees tried to build the device it failed. Theranos’s technology was going to change the medical world and save countless lives. Lead by the dazzling Elizabeth Holmes, who was aiming to be the next Steve Jobs, investors were enraptured with the idea that this company could take a single drop of blood and be able to diagnose hundreds of diseases and run countless tests.

In this case, Bad Blood by John Carreyrou was a book that I could just not put down.īad Blood Book: Secrets and Lies in a Silicon Valley Start Up Review: Summaryīad Blood tells the real story of how the Silicon Valley Unicorn Theranos seemed to rise out of nowhere, ready to revolutionize the medical world. Those books are the books that will get a post all to themselves. But every once in a while I’ll have a book that I was asked to specifically review, a book with great advice, or a book that was just so good that I could not put down. I have a tendency to read a lot of books and I always want to try and share as many good books as possible with you. Normally that’s because I want to share the widest amount of books possible with you. I’ll do them every once in a while on here, but it’s more likely that I’ll do a round up of books with some sort of theme or just a list of books I’ve read recently. I feel like I don’t do single book reviews often enough. Thank you for supporting the brands that support Something Good.

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