The tone of the story suddenly shifts as the author describes a meeting after which some major concerns were raised by employees. The company’s management is full of competent, well-established experts and people with decades of experience at large tech companies. The company is run by Elizabeth Holmes, who dropped out of Stanford during her sophomore year, at 19 years of age, in order to start her own business. Their innovative system offers the users blood testing without needles and the requirements of the lab. The story begins in 2006 with the introduction of Theranos, a company established 3 years prior that offers a revolutionary way of blood testing. The book follows the company from its founding, a billion-dollar evaluation that made Holmes a billionaire, ended with the revelation of the fraud that Holmes managed to hide from the investors and the public for years. John Carreyorou delivers a story on the rise and fall of “Theranos,” a company founded by Elizabeth Holmes when she was 19 years old.
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