John Carreyrou.
JOHN CARREYROU
BAD BLOOD: SECRETS AND LIES IN A SILICON VALLEY STARTUP (2023)
Winner of the 2018 Financial Times McKinsey Business Book of the Year Award.
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Elizabeth Holmes (born 1984) is a disgraced American entrepreneur. Her blood testing company Theranos was at one stage valued at $9 billion, making Holmes the richest self-made billionaire in the USA. However, she became the subject of fraud allegations claiming that she had misled investors by making false claims about the blood testing technique she had developed. This led to her fraud trial, her bankruptcy, and her being sentenced to 11 years in prison. It was an extraordinary fall from grace. Before the Theranos scandal Holmes was appointed to the Harvard Medical School Board of Fellows, and was named by Time magazine as one of the ‘Time 100 most influential pepole’.
John Carreyrou gives a detailed account of Holmes’ roller coaster life story. He first broke the story of the Theranos scandal, and pursued it thereafter. David Crow, reviewing the book in the Financial Times, wrote: ‘Riveting . . . a blistering critique of Silicon Valley . . . The real heroes, though, are his sources: the young scientists who worked at the company and risked their reputations and careers by voicing their concerns. Were it not for their courage, Theranos might still be testing blood today.’
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John Carreyrou is the son of a French journalist father and an American mother. He grew up in Paris, graduating in 1994 from Duke University with a BA in Political Science and Government. He worked for the Wall Street Journal from 1999 to 2019, and now works as an investigative reporter for the New York Times. He has twice won the Pulitzer Prize for his reporting.
