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Secrets and Lies in a Silicon Valley Startup<\/span><\/p>\n The full inside story of the breathtaking rise and shocking collapse of Theranos, the multibillion-dollar biotech startup, by the prize-winning journalist who first broke the story and pursued it to the end, despite pressure from its charismatic CEO and threats by her lawyers. <\/span><\/p>\n 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 revolutionise 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. In Bad Blood, John Carreyrou tells the riveting story of the biggest corporate fraud since Enron, a tale of ambition and hubris set amid the bold promises of Silicon Valley.<\/span><\/p>\n Author:<\/b> \u00a0\u00a0<\/span><\/p>\n John Carreyrou<\/span><\/p>\n Published In:<\/b><\/p>\n 28 Aug 2018<\/span><\/p>\n <\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":" Overview: Secrets and Lies in a Silicon Valley Startup The full inside story of the breathtaking rise and shocking collapse of Theranos, the multibillion-dollar biotech startup, by the prize-winning journalist who first broke the story and pursued it to the end, despite pressure from its charismatic CEO and threats by her lawyers. In 2014, Theranos […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":6,"featured_media":9011,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_access":"","_jetpack_dont_email_post_to_subs":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_tier_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paywalled_content":false,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":"","jetpack_publicize_message":"","jetpack_publicize_feature_enabled":true,"jetpack_social_post_already_shared":true,"jetpack_social_options":{"image_generator_settings":{"template":"highway","enabled":false},"version":2}},"categories":[250],"tags":[2091,2092,1167],"class_list":["post-8992","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-book-series","tag-bad-blood","tag-john-carreyrou","tag-the-coaching-habit"],"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/innoroo.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/03\/Bad-Blood-March-2019-Book-Series.png?fit=750%2C410&ssl=1","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/p8Rui8-2l2","jetpack-related-posts":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/innoroo.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/8992","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/innoroo.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/innoroo.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/innoroo.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/6"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/innoroo.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=8992"}],"version-history":[{"count":4,"href":"https:\/\/innoroo.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/8992\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":9013,"href":"https:\/\/innoroo.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/8992\/revisions\/9013"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/innoroo.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/9011"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/innoroo.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=8992"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/innoroo.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=8992"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/innoroo.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=8992"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}