ABSTRACT
Bad Blood: Secrets and Lies in a Silicon Valley Startup is John Carreyrou’s gripping story of how Holmes’s great idea led to Silicon Valley stardom and then into an ethical quagmire. Bad Blood: Secrets and Lies in a Silicon Valley Startup is John Carreyrou’s gripping story of how Holmes’s great idea led to Silicon Valley stardom and then into an ethical quagmire. In 2014, Carreyrou received a tip from Adam Clapper, a pathologist in Missouri who had helped Carreyrou with an earlier story. Carreyrou knew he had a big story if he could track down supporting evidence. In riveting detail, he recounts how he chased the evidence while Holmes and Balwani worked to derail his efforts. The Centers for Medicare and Medicaid Services, the federal agency that monitors clinical labs, ran inspections that echoed Carreyrou’s findings, and banned Theranos from all blood testing.
