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Bad Blood: Secrets and Lies of a Silicon Valley Giant by John Carreyrou Publisher: Beijing United Publishing Company

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Introduction
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How did a drop of blood create a unicorn company worth nearly $10 billion?
How did the “female version of Steve Jobs” use desire and greed to create the Silicon Valley business myth?
Bill Gates recommends two-time Pulitzer Prize winner John Carreyrou for 2018
The New York Times Book Review, Time Magazine, Wall Street Journal, Washington Post, Financial Times and dozens of other media outlets have published the best books of the year.
The film adaptation of the original novel was produced by Hollywood Legend Pictures and starred Oscar-winning actress Jennifer Lawrence
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【Content Introduction】
In 2014, Theranos, a company founded by Elizabeth Holmes, grew into the most commercially valuable unicorn company in Silicon Valley in just ten years due to its revolutionary blood testing technology - more than 200 professional tests on a drop of blood. Holmes herself was listed among the top 400 richest people in the United States and was selected as one of the 100 most influential people in the world by Time magazine, becoming the first billionaire female entrepreneur in Silicon Valley. Behind Theranos is a luxurious lineup of board members - former US Secretary of State George Shultz, Henry Kissinger, media tycoon Rupert Murdoch, Oracle founder Larry Ellison, legendary venture capitalist Donald Lucas, etc. Just as people were looking forward to Theranos growing into the next Apple or Google, a truth gradually emerged - the revolutionary technology claimed by Theranos was fake, and the core of this business myth was only one lie.
How was a scam worth nearly 10 billion dollars carefully constructed? How could a Stanford dropout with no medical background deceive a group of American political and business leaders? John Carreyrou, a two-time Pulitzer Prize winner, was not afraid of threats and pursuits, and revealed the inside story of this largest corporate fraud since Enron with a calm touch and complete details. "Booklist" magazine praised: "Carreyrou's painstaking efforts to expose Holmes' crimes are indeed worth saving lives!"
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【Media Recommendation】
"This story is even crazier than I imagined, and I found myself unable to put it down once I started. This book has it all: an elaborate scam, corporate intrigue, a magazine cover story, destroyed family relationships, and the collapse of a company once worth nearly $10 billion." - Bill Gates
"No crime novelist has Carreyrou's keen sense of suspenseful rhythm and multifaceted character development in this riveting, one-shot masterpiece... Carreyrou's dedication to uncovering Holmes' crimes is truly worth saving lives!" - Booklist

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