Bad Blood: Secrets and Lies in a Silicon Valley Startup

Theranos ran real blood tests on real patients using technology that did not work. Carreyrou broke the story and this is the full account of how Elizabeth Holmes built a nine-billion-dollar fraud on the premise that wanting something to be true was the same as making it true. The Silicon Valley ethos, applied to healthcare, killed people. The chapter on the deaths resulting from false diagnoses should end careers. It did not.