{"id":739,"date":"2020-03-21T13:45:51","date_gmt":"2020-03-21T13:45:51","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/biohackbase.com\/index.php\/2020\/03\/21\/bad-blood-secrets-and-lies-in-a-silicon-valley-startup\/"},"modified":"2020-03-21T13:45:51","modified_gmt":"2020-03-21T13:45:51","slug":"bad-blood-secrets-and-lies-in-a-silicon-valley-startup","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/biohackbase.com\/index.php\/2020\/03\/21\/bad-blood-secrets-and-lies-in-a-silicon-valley-startup\/","title":{"rendered":"Bad Blood: Secrets and Lies in a Silicon Valley Startup"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/images-na.ssl-images-amazon.com\/images\/I\/41r-oFRk-GL.jpg\" class=\"wp_automatic_gallery\" \/><br \/>\n<b>Price: <span style=\"color:#b12704\">[price_with_discount]<\/span><\/b><\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/amazon.com\/dp\/B078VW3VM7?tag=llsc_bh-20\"><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/i.imgur.com\/q25bNRh.png\"><\/a><br \/>\n[ad_1]<br \/>\n<b><i>NEW YORK TIMES<\/i> BEST SELLER \u2022\u00a0 NAMED ONE OF THE BEST BOOKS OF THE YEAR BY: NPR,<i>\u00a0The New York Times Book Review<\/i>, <i>Time<\/i>, <i>Wall Street Journal, Washington Post<\/i> \u2022 The McKinsey Business Book of the Year <\/b><br \/> \u00a0<br \/> <b>The full inside story of the breathtaking rise and shocking collapse of Theranos, the one-time multibillion-dollar biotech startup founded by Elizabeth Holmes\u2014now the subject of the HBO documentary <i>The Inventor\u2014<\/i>by the prize-winning journalist who first broke the story and pursued it to the end.<\/p>\n<p> \u201cThe 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.\u201d \u2014Bill Gates<\/b><\/p>\n<p> In 2014, Theranos founder and CEO Elizabeth Holmes was widely seen as the female Steve Jobs: a brilliant Stanford dropout whose startup \u201cunicorn\u201d 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\u2019s worth at an estimated $4.7 billion. There was just one problem: The technology didn\u2019t work.<\/p>\n<p> A riveting story of the biggest corporate fraud since Enron, a tale of ambition and hubris set amid the bold promises of Silicon Valley.<br \/>\n<br \/><iframe style=\"width:100%;height:342px\" class=\"wp_automatic_amazon_review\" src=\"https:\/\/www.amazon.com\/reviews\/iframe?akid=AKIAI5C56G4QG4XBQLVA&#038;alinkCode=xm2&#038;asin=B078VW3VM7&#038;atag=lsc1111-20&#038;exp=2030-03-18T13%3A21%3A01Z&#038;v=2&#038;sig=Cs4hQRE58mRJIc%252BU4ByRCNeCjESwKvQjn00KgRkm1uM%253D\" ><\/iframe><br \/>\n<br \/>[ad_2]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Price: [price_with_discount] [ad_1] NEW YORK TIMES BEST SELLER \u2022\u00a0 NAMED ONE OF THE BEST BOOKS OF THE YEAR BY: NPR,\u00a0The<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":740,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[628],"tags":[1263,1264,1265,904,1266,1268,1267],"class_list":["post-739","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-biotechnology","tag-bad","tag-blood","tag-lies","tag-secrets","tag-silicon","tag-startup","tag-valley"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/biohackbase.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/739","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/biohackbase.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/biohackbase.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/biohackbase.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/biohackbase.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=739"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/biohackbase.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/739\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/biohackbase.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/740"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/biohackbase.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=739"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/biohackbase.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=739"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/biohackbase.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=739"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}