:INFO
The True Story That Reads Better Than Any Thriller
John Carreyrou spent years investigating Theranos and the result is a book that accelerates the way a great thriller does while being entirely true. Elizabeth Holmes built a company on the premise of a blood test that did not work, convinced investors and regulators and patients that it did, and kept the fraud running through a culture of fear and secrecy. Every chapter reveals something worse than the last and every chapter is better written than it has any right to be.


:NOW
Thinking about what made so many smart people believe her

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Fraud this large does not happen by accident. It requires many decisions.


:JOURNEY
Reading Bad Blood
4 Absorbing setup
5 Stakes change
5 Most chilling
4 Slow consequences

:NOW
Reading about the appeal proceedings and wondering how the book will read in ten years when the full legal story has resolved.

:POLL
Did Bad Blood change how you think about startup culture and investor behavior?
Yes profoundly, I see the Silicon Valley mythology differently now
Somewhat, I was already skeptical but this made it more specific
Not much, I read it as a story about one person rather than a systemic problem
I have not read it yet