Bad Blood: Elizabeth Holmes & Theranos - the story continues as the trial begins 

I remember watching the documentary about Theranos on HBO and finding it fascinating. Definitely interested in picking this book up now! Thank you for the review

Great review! I’ve been borderline obsessed with the Theranos saga since reading Bad Blood. Carreyrou has a great podcast about it as well. Very eager to see if her defense actually works. Way back in my restaurant days, one of my bosses had “relations” with a waitress. But then again, that kind of stuff was rampant in restaurants.

Just finished listening to the audio book Bad Blood. Absolutely riveting. John Carreyrou did an awesome job. He also has a podcast called Bad Blood the Final Chapter with more info and craziness that's happened since the book was published. I highly recommend it.

I fell into a Theranos rabbit hole a couple of years ago but have yet to read this book! I should pick it up. (PS On a similar note, I read Goodbye Vitamin after your recommendation in a previous video and really enjoyed it - thank you!)

it's disconcerting, to say the least, that the scientific establishment was not out ahead of this impossible science, not to speak of the technicians who must have been employed by the company. and again it's depressing to see how heartless greed can rule someone like elizabeth holmes. thanks for the great and entertaining review. dave.

Ugh, I had forgotten about the Enron connection. That debacle cost me a chunk of change.

I’m hooked on the podcast currently - so fascinating! Loved the video - thank you!

Yeaeaaaah, I’m gonna need you to come in this weekend and work on those TPS reports….😂 I’ve been lucky in the boss department so don’t have any stories of my own. This story is endlessly fascinating.

I absolutely loved this book, and have been fascinated by everything that has subsequently come out about Theranos/Holmes since!

This book was so interesting. I hope she gets the maximum sentence. She is a dreadful human being. I couldn’t believe her lawyers and those old farts on her board who wouldn’t/couldn’t see that she was a scammer and the one who drove me craziest was the grandfather who wrote off his own grandson. As always, you have presented a thoughtful discussion about the book. Two years after reading it I can only rant about it.

Entertaining and thorough review as always! Bad Blood was *so* entertaining but also infuriating. And David Boies is such a villain! Here's my idiot boss story: a new Associate Publisher of a newspaper. The Publisher knew the AP & I didn't get along, and recommended I demonstrate my value by recommending books & articles he'd find helpful (which the Publisher apparently had in the past). So one day after the AP & I wrapped our business in a one-on-one, I launched into a nonfiction book recommendation that everyone in the building had read the previous year, because it heavily featured one of the paper's star employees. It was a bit alarming that he hadn't heard of it at all. So I go through my presentation but noticed he was huffing in impatience and antsy in his chair, so wrapped it up and awaited the response he was so eager to give. He sighed dramatically and said that while it sounded great (with eye roll), the thing is he really couldn't READ. I noted the word "couldn't" but hoped he really meant "didn't." He sounded more irritated than embarrassed, so I thought he must really mean he just didn't enjoy reading. Surely nobody would so easily confess to not being able to read... while working at a newspaper!? Nope. And he liked me even less after this encounter. In one meeting, he was telling the group about a movie he'd seen where people laughed at a line he didn't get, and from the context thought he might reference Shakespeare. He turned pointedly to me and sneered, "YOU'd probably have gotten the joke. But believe me, MOST people didn't get it." Well okay then; obviously he was totally fine and had no chip on his shoulder whatsoever. I do have sympathy for people who manage to make it through school without learning to read. I suspect he had ADHD; don't know whether he was ever diagnosed. But dude, don't be such a dick about it. And, you know, it's never too late: hire a tutor with your fat salary. He was a white dude who came from a privileged background. And somehow ended up with an MBA from a top school. And worked as an Associate Publisher at a NEWSPAPER.

It was such a good book! A real credit to what journalism can accomplish. So far I've been fortunate to not have any CEO horror stories (whether because they are good bosses, or I've been too far down the ladder to be directly impacted or witness to it).

This book was fascinating. I don't understand both how people get caught up believing these scammers and how the scammers have no guilt about it. It just blows my mind. Boss behavior: I had one pull me aside and tell me that I was too smart and knew too much about the company, so could I please tone it down because "people" were feeling inscure around me. And various temper tantrums from others. Oh, and one told me I wasn't emotional enough about my work, whatever that means.

My first ever office job....the CEO would tear off tiny bits of his eraser and throw them at my colleagues. (He never threw them at me...LOL) If anybody stopped doing what they were to talk to him (he clearly wanted attention), he'd call them lazy and tell them to get back to work! I left the company after about 9 months. I just couldn't take it anymore. Bits of erasers all over the place!

As a medical lab tech, I would have bet the farm that it was a scam when I saw the story early on. Technology in medical lab testing advances rapidly, but not that rapidly.

I have had this sitting on my TBR for way too long-- it hits a tender spot because *I* too was sucked into the cult of Elizabeth... though not financially, i was sucked in emotionally. I was so amazed by the trajectory of her career and with how she presented herself .. and I was wow'd by the "technology" we all now know as a lie. I was in awe of her -- as a scientist, a technologist, a trailblazer, a woman. I am angry that she duped the media ... and the world. I am angry that I believed the lie. I am *still* angry and embarrassed. It's going to be a hard read for me.

I worked for a local computer company. The owner was 100% like Burns on The Simpsons, complete with his own little Smithers. I kid you not. I'm heading for 60 and I've never, ever seen anything like it before or since. As far as being dumb, I think that we have to stop being surprised at what halfwits we humans are. We believe we are primarily rational beings. The entire planet's response to catastrophic climate change, the pandemic, unending wars, and horrific resource disparities says otherwise. I think it's David McRaney who said... "Emotion is not separate from cognition. Emotion is cognition." Until we face the fact that rationality is not our strong point, we will continue to make horrible "decisions" and be ruled by charlatans.

Elizabeth Holmes incinerated 900 Million dollars belonging to wealthy and famous people - who have now also been humiliated (since they look like dumb money for having invested in Theranos without doing any due diligence). I know of a banker in Italy who was disappeared (not in the Balwani sense) for having lost a lot of money belonging to a wealthy and infamous Russian in a Madoff investment in 2009.

reat review of something I've never heard of.