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You should listen to this audiobook
- Did you know that one of Silicon Valley’s most celebrated 'unicorns' was built entirely on a revolutionary medical device that didn't actually work?
- Have you ever wondered how far the 'fake-it-till-you-make-it' culture can go before it starts putting millions of innocent lives at risk?
- Are you curious about how a 19-year-old college dropout managed to deceive the world’s most powerful leaders and build a $9 billion empire on a lie?
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Key Takeaways from Bad Blood
- Learn how Elizabeth Holmes leveraged high-profile connections and a Steve Jobs-like 'reality distortion field' to convince investors to fund a flawed vision.
- Discover the severe pitfalls of toxic leadership by examining how Holmes routinely ignored critical technical failures and fired executives who demanded transparency.
- Understand how a corporate culture of intimidation can drive away ethical employees, especially when incomplete medical technology is dangerously pushed onto real patients.
- Find out how Theranos successfully deceived major retail partners like Walgreens by falsifying their device's testing capabilities and fabricating university certifications.
- Explore how powerful legal intimidation and aggressively expensive litigation were weaponized by Theranos to crush rivals and protect a fraudulent narrative.
Bad Blood — Full Chapter Overview
Chapter 1: Recommendation
Chapter 2: Elizabeth Holmes envisioned a brilliant machine that could revolutionize medical diagnostics for everyone everywhere.
Chapter 3: There was one major problem: the machines proved nearly impossible to build.
Chapter 4: Holmes persisted, using her charm and charisma to press forward with her plan.
Chapter 5: Theranos concealed the Edison’s defects to win over many prospective investors.
Chapter 6: The company systematically falsified data to sustain its ongoing subterfuge.
Chapter 7: Theranos took extraordinary measures to evade FDA inspections while publicly posing as staunch pro-FDA advocates.
Chapter 8: The company guarded its secrets by firing dissenters and hiring drones.
Bad Blood Summary & Overview
Bad Blood (2018) is the harrowing inside story of a how a tech start-up rooted in Silicon Valley’s fake-it-till-you-make-it culture risked the lives of millions with a blood-testing device that proved too good to be true. Written by Pulitzer-winning journalist John Carreyrou, who broke the story and pursued it to its end, this is the account of Theranos and its wunderkind CEO Elizabeth Holmes’ meteoric rise and epic fall from grace.
Who Should Listen to Bad Blood?
- Anyone working in a start-up
- Fans of true stories that you just can’t make up
- Professionals in the medical industry
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