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Reddit mentions of Bad Blood: Secrets and Lies in a Silicon Valley Startup

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Reddit mentions: 14

We found 14 Reddit mentions of Bad Blood: Secrets and Lies in a Silicon Valley Startup. Here are the top ones.

Bad Blood: Secrets and Lies in a Silicon Valley Startup
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  • 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.
  • Crime thriller authors have nothing on carreyrou's exquisite sense of suspenseful pacing and multifaceted character development in this riveting, read-in-one-sitting tour de force....Carreyrou's commitment to unraveling holmes' crimes was literally of life-saving value. -booklist
  • Binding: hardcover
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Height9.53 inches
Length6.37 inches
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Release dateMay 2018
Weight1.55 Pounds
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Found 14 comments on Bad Blood: Secrets and Lies in a Silicon Valley Startup:

u/yLSxTKOYYm · 16 pointsr/cscareerquestions

I'm a big fan of the book about the Theranos debacle, Bad Blood by John Carreyrou. It's a great case study on messiah complexes, bad leadership, and organizational dysfunction.

u/wp381640 · 13 pointsr/Documentaries

Amazon Link - can't recommend it enough, hard to put down and very well weaved together

Carreyrou owns the story - it's hard to describe just what he was up against. All the big names in SV didn't just love Holmes, they praised her, and then they trashed John and the WSJ for going after her.

It took a lot of courage to go against these people and to pursuit the truth in this story. Not to mention that the owner of the WSJ, Murdoch, was a huge personal investor in Theranos (and to his credit didn't intervene to kill the story when Elizabeth asked him to)

u/eatallthelipsticks · 8 pointsr/RepLadies

Ooh I watch many beauty YouTuber so favourite videos are my most beloved. Wish this could become a monthly thread!

Beauty: This month I've been really enjoying the Em Cosmetics Color Drops Serum Blush. I have the colour Rose Milk and it gives my cheeks a subtle, dewy glow. Tempted to get all the colours now!

Skincare: It's a toss up between The Inkey List Brighten-i Cream and Sunday Riley Tidal Water Cream. Also looking for a new hydrating concealer - what are your faves, ladies? I recently broke up with Tarte Shape Tape. It was just so thick and cakey on me.

Shoes: Have been wearing these TB Dior J'Adior slingbacks and while they're not the most accurate (the shape of the toe box is a bit off), they are really comfy and come in a size 42. Score!

Bag: Kudos to the ladies who shared this Ferragamo purse - it's perfect for running errands in town.

Book: Late to this party but I swallowed Bad Blood by John Carreyrou in two days and am re-reading it! Love juicy corporate scandal stories like these, am waiting to read Million Dollar Whale by Tom Wright and Bradley Hope next.

Fashion: Have been living in these GAP cigarette jeans. They're so soft and comfy.

u/Graphic-Addiction · 7 pointsr/trailers

In a way, she wanted you to be able to prick your finger, and with just one drop of blood, be able to get blood test results for over a hundred different diseases. The problem was you need lots of blood to test for all the things she claimed she could test for and required lots of professional lab equipment, not just a little box. There is a great book about it that goes into great detail and is a fantastic read called Bad Blood

u/blueseasailor · 5 pointsr/booksuggestions

Bad Blood by John Carreyrou is an excellent investigative book on Theranos.

u/BleepBleepBeep · 3 pointsr/CGPGrey

For the next Cortex book club, I highly recommend John Carreyrou’s Bad Blood about the rise and fall of Theranos.

u/scribby555 · 3 pointsr/btc

Thank you very much for elaborating. I was hoping that you wouldn't take offense at my question. I'm a heavy cryptocurrency investor and have considered stretching myself relatively thin but fortunately have enough discipline. I am currently reading the book Bad Blood by John Carreyrou which is a great story that has some parallels to what you are describing. At one point, Theranos described themselves as having positive cash flow for x-consecutive months. Which, if one were able to see everything that a major investor would be able to see, they'd know that not a penny of that was from legitimate revenue but was from rounds of investors who believed the crap being "sold" to them. I wish you the best in your financial recovery and your ability to learn from an awful situation.

u/alexandrawallace69 · 3 pointsr/Epstein

I don't doubt your experience of him being good boss but if you read Bad Blood him and his firm seem really sleazy. They pressured Carreyrou not to write the book, members of his firm duped Former Secretary of State George Schultz and pressured his grandson to sign documents trying to prevent him from being a Theranos whistleblower. What him and his firm did might not be illegal but it should be. Also, he joined other members of the deep state on the Theranos board which makes me concerned that he his part of the deep state.

> I think you are extremely off here.

What do you mean, are you saying he never hired Black Cube

u/jerkenstine · 1 pointr/IdiotsInCars

Haha yes I was joking. I just finished reading Bad Blood the other day, I highly recommend it. I'm not much of a reader but finished it in two days because of how interesting the whole story is.

u/SunnySam · 0 pointsr/bioinformatics

"So it turned out Theranos was basically a fraud. They claimed to be able to run 240 tests on just a pinprick of blood. Experts were skeptical, and they were right to be. Yet somehow this company managed to keep going for 11 years in spite of having minimal revenue and a largely non-functional "product". Frequently their tests would fail and no results would be returned to patients, but that's probably for the best since the results they did return were highly unreliable and substantially different from existing tests (ie they were wrong).

An excellent book chronicling the whole saga (written by John Carreyrou, same reporter who wrote the above article) is Bad Blood."