Bad Blood: Secrets and Lies in a Silicon Valley Startup

I’m not that interested in Theranos specifically, but what is interesting about this book is all the patterns of corruption that I’ve seen before in numerous places: bullying people through numerous expensive bogus law suits, wanting employees to be loyal instead of highly qualified (which often includes nepotism), toxic work environments, numerous firings: especially when people are fired for questioning appropriate work practices, lying or loose ethical standards by management, employees that are so stressed that they start keeping written records of their interactions with management.

The employee suicide was a horror, and they should have focused on that part more. Also the involvement of General Mattis is super weird. Otherwise, the book could have benefitted from a lot of editing though because it keeps talking about how the product wasn't working and they kept pretending it did. Okay, I get it.

Surprisingly the end of the book was the most exciting. It was a meta section about how difficult it was to get the story of Theranos corruption published. Another reminder of how important free journalism is.

Absolutely loved this book - perhaps one of my favourite book club reads. I found the story riveting, Holmes infuriating, but mostly found myself ranting at the (mostly elderly, male) Directors who did so little due diligence and seemed to be willing to overlook blatant fraud when dazzled by the charm of a pretty, white woman. This book took me down a rabbit-hole of reading about the case, and I've since read a number of other books about Holmes and watched several documentaries. LOVED IT!

This was pretty good but I still stand by my point that I don't really care about rich f***s doing rich f*** things.

The amount of sociopathic audacity of Ms. Holmes has made me so mad. The secrets and lies exposed in this book are only the tip of the iceberg and is a small sign of what's wrong with capitalistic rich folks. The sad part is the idea of what she'd hope to accomplish would be great and could be if she used the money she raised towards the science.

Amazing.
I mostly heard about Elizabeth Holmes and Theranos in the aftermath of the scandal and wondered how an Enron like operation had occurred again and this time with health care.

Theranos makes Enron look like child’s play.

“Bad Blood” reads like a novel and the amount of detail and direct source quotes is awesome. Literally you will not believe how long this facade was able to carry on.