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Bad Blood

  • Writer: Michael Connolly
    Michael Connolly
  • Oct 14
  • 1 min read

Updated: Oct 21

Bad Blood: Secrets and Lies in a Silicon Valley Startup by John Carreyrou, Vintage, 2018. 


Blood Draws

Elizabeth Anne Holmes fooled investors into believing that she had invented a machine to perform multiple blood assays on a single drop of blood obtained from a finger prick, thus obviating the need to perform a needle stick to draw a vial of blood. Her company was called Theranos. Her partner in this scam was Ramesh “Sunny” Balwani. Holmes was very secretive and few of her own employees knew that the machine was a failure. It could not perform multiple assays on one drop of blood. Even a single assay was of poor quality.


People Holmes Fooled 

  • James Mattis, a four-star USMC general

  • George Shultz, former cabinet member

  • Steven A. Burd, CEO of Safeway

  • Larry Ellison, co-founder of Oracle

  • Rupert Murdoch, CEO of News Corporation

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