Elizabeth Holmes: The True Story of Theranos and the Fraud That Fooled Silicon Valley
Dustin Rutledge
Sonia Erirhomuru Solomon · AI-narrated by Mary (from Google)
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She promised to revolutionize medicine with a machine that could change the world. Investors believed her. Powerful people joined her cause. Patients trusted her technology. Then the story began to unravel.Elizabeth Holmes rose from an ambitious young entrepreneur to the face of Theranos, a company that promised to transform blood testing by performing a wide range of medical tests using tiny amounts of blood. Her vision attracted billions of dollars in investment, influential supporters, and extraordinary media attention.But behind the polished presentations and revolutionary promises was a growing gap between what Theranos claimed its technology could do and what it could actually deliver.Elizabeth Holmes: The True Story of Theranos and the Fraud That Fooled Silicon Valley follows Holmes's remarkable rise, the creation of Theranos, the investors and institutions that helped propel the company forward, and the investigative reporting that ultimately exposed the company's deception. It examines the warning signs, the internal concerns, the patients affected by unreliable testing, and the extraordinary collapse of one of Silicon Valley's most celebrated startups.How did Holmes convince so many sophisticated investors and business leaders to believe in Theranos? Why were serious questions about the technology overlooked for so long? What happened when employees and journalists began challenging the company's claims? And how did a company once hailed as the future of healthcare become synonymous with one of America's most notorious corporate fraud scandals?Beyond the courtroom and the headlines, this is a story about ambition, secrecy, persuasion, money, power, and the dangerous consequences of believing a revolutionary promise without demanding revolutionary proof.Now step inside the rise and spectacular fall of Theranos. Follow Elizabeth Holmes from her earliest ambitions to the courtroom, examine the warning signs that were missed along the way, and discover how a billion-dollar vision captivated Silicon Valley—until the evidence became impossible to ignore. Turn the page and uncover the true story behind one of the most extraordinary corporate scandals of the modern era.
She promised to revolutionize medicine with a machine that could change the world. Investors believed her. Powerful people joined her cause. Patients trusted her technology. Then the story began to unravel.Elizabeth Holmes rose from an ambitious young entrepreneur to the face of Theranos, a compa...
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