She believed that people involved in the project who disagreed with her or presented evidence of problems were saboteurs working for her competitors, and they had to be marginalized or attacked. Basing his findings on hundreds of interviews with people inside and outside the company, two-time Pulitzer Prizewinning Wall Street Journal reporter Carreyrou rigorously examines the seamy details behind the demise of Theranos and its creator, Elizabeth Holmes. Though in fact her machines didn’t work, she would tell anyone who would listen that her blood readers functioned beautifully and were about to revolutionize healthcare. A deep investigative report on the sensationalistic downfall of multibillion-dollar Silicon Valley biotech startup Theranos. No one could penetrate Elizabeth’s arbitrary belief system, and few could withstand the power of her charming salesmanship.
As far as she was concerned, her own beliefs trumped reality. The work was hard and prone to failure, but, under the high-stress competitive pressure of Silicon Valley’s startup culture, Elizabeth decided that her idea for a fast, portable blood-test service had to work, and, therefore, that it did work. Brilliant, intensely driven, able to talk nearly anyone into giving her what she wanted, Elizabeth quit her studies at Stanford to pursue her dream of changing the world of medicine with her new blood tester.
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