Bad Blood

The shocking true investigation behind Nathan Fielder's You Can See Everything and The Dropout, from the award-winning journalist who first broke the story. Bad Blood details the breathtaking rise and fall of Theranos, the multibillion-dollar biotech startup founded by Elizabeth Holmes.Winner of the Financial Times/McKinsey Business Book of the Year Award'A story so incredible you'd think it was fiction' – James Patterson'A tale of corporate fraud and legal browbeating that reads like a crime thriller' – TIMEElizabeth Holmes was a brilliant Stanford dropout whose startup ‘unicorn’ Theranos promised to revolutionize the medical industry with a machine that would make blood testing faster and easier. Backed by wealthy investors, Theranos sold shares that valued the company at more than $9 billion.There was just one problem.The technology didn’t work.Despite threats of legal action, brave whistleblowers started to talk. They revealed a culture of intimidation and secrecy, technology that repeatedly failed, results sent to real patients that were incorrect but upon which life-changing medical decisions were being made, with devastating consequences.More relevant than ever, this is an utterly gripping tale of ambition and scandal set amid the bold promises of Silicon Valley.