by John Carreyrou, 2018
Book Riot Read Harder Challenge: A book of nonviolent true crime.
I’ve heard so much about the insanity of this story since this book came out, and I have to say, it was not oversold. I must have been living under a rock in late 2015/early 2016 because I do not recall hearing anything about Elizabeth Holmes, Theranos, or this scandal that rocked the medical industry. In short, the book is a chronicle of Holmes’s rise to meteoric fame and fortune as the CEO of Theranos, a company that promised to revolutionize medicine with its small, at-home blood testing machines that could analyze blood from a tiny finger stick. Gone were the days of searching for veins and having to be stuck multiple times, a trying ordeal for anyone, but even more so for those who are afraid of needles, as Holmes claimed to be. The problem was that none of it worked. That’s what makes this story so crazy. NONE OF IT EVER WORKED.
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