Bad Blood

John Carreyrou 2018

Devastation Rating

Ugly Crying
fraud medicine tech Silicon Valley

Our Take

Elizabeth Holmes built a medical diagnostics company on a technology that did not work and tested it on real patients. Carreyrou broke the story for the WSJ — a study in charisma, investor credulity, and the harm done to patients whose blood tests came back wrong. The blood was always the point.

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