Bad Blood: Secrets and Lies in a Silicon Valley Startup

Bad Blood: Secrets and Lies in a Silicon Valley Startup

2018 • 339 pages

Ratings369

Average rating4.4

15

This book felt like an oversized editorial on Los Angeles Times. The story itself is very interesting, it's a good thriller and definitely a page-turner, but instead of focusing on the tons of people Theranos hired and fired, I think the author should have focused on Elizabeth and Sunny, building their characters more and also a few key employees at Theranos. I would also split the book into 2 story lines: one of Theranos and Elizabeth (her biography, deals and trials and investigations at Theranos) and the second about people working at Theranos and how it all happened from the inside.
I'm giving 3 stars for the writing, 5 for the story and 5 for John Carreyrou's professionalism and the courage of his sources and the first Theranos whistleblowers.

January 19, 2019