![]() ![]() Theranos created devices that simply did not work. could be summed up by a motivational saying inscribed on a paperweight she kept on her desk: “What would you attempt to do if you knew you could not fail?” Holmes’s assistants would Facebook-friend employees just to report on what they were posting. She pitted engineering teams against each other, assuming competition would foster better productivity over collaboration. ![]() The company’s CEO, Elizabeth Holmes, was a classic narcissist-an intelligent and ambitious entrepreneur who surrounded herself with mediocre yes men. Turns out Theranos would involve a lot more than one prick. Theranos-not to be confused with Thanatos, the god of death, or Thanos, the purple Marvel villain-raised money on a too-good-to-be-true promise of a pitch deck: a revolutionary household box that could administer a number of medical tests-all with a single prick. You might recall Carreyrou’s reporting last year in The Wall Street Journal, when he exposed the lie behind Theranos (rhymes with “Bailamos”), the multi-billion-dollar-valued tech startup that sought to simplify blood testing. ![]() Titled after the eleventh best song on 1989, John Carreyrou’s Bad Blood is a scrupulously reported book about Silicon Valley hubris. ![]()
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