The author also paints a damning portrait of the company’s founder, Elizabeth Holmes – a Steve Jobs wannabe – which Forbes named the youngest and wealthiest self-made billionaire in 2015, only to earn a place the following year in Fortune’s infamous list of the “world’s most disappointing leaders.” In “Bad Blood,” acclaimed French American investigative journalist John Carreyrou unveils the unimaginably dark secrets of Theranos – until recently, one of the breakthrough technology corporations of the past decade. Set in the Silicon Valley – the place where future is manufactured – it features a charismatic female turtleneck-wearing protagonist, a bunch of hoodwinked FoMO-fraught investors (an acronym to the “Fear of Missing Out”), and a revolutionary medical device valued at no less than $9 billion – that is impossible to make. Just like all the best true stories out there, this one’s stranger than fiction as well.
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