John Carreyrou is a two-time Pulitzer Prize-winning investigative reporter at The Wall Street Journal. For his extensive coverage of Theranos, Carreyrou was awarded the George Polk Award for Financial Reporting, the Gerald Loeb Award for Distinguished Business and Financial Journalism in the category of beat reporting, and the Barlett & Steele Silver Award for Investigative Business Journalism. Carreyrou lives in Brooklyn with his wife and three children.
The full inside story of the breathtaking rise and shocking collapse of Theranos, the multibillion-dollar biotech startup, by the prize-winning journalist who first broke the story and pursued it to the end, despite pressure from its charismatic CEO and threats by her lawyers.
In 2014, Theranos founder and CEO Elizabeth Holmes was widely seen as the female Steve Jobs: a brilliant Stanford dropout whose startup "unicorn" promised to revolutionize the medical industry with a machine that would make blood testing significantly faster and easier. Backed by investors such as Larry Ellison and Tim Draper, Theranos sold shares in a fundraising round that valued the company at more than $9 billion, putting Holmes's worth at an estimated $4.7 billion. There was just one problem: The technology didn't work.
A riveting story of the biggest corporate fraud since Enron, a tale of ambition and hubris set amid the bold promises of Silicon Valley.
这几乎是一个难分「梦想」和「谎言」的时代。九零后的币圈明星一边创造了「巴菲特午餐」的新竞拍纪录,一边又顺手「还击」了当年看他如同「打量骗子的眼神」的旧日宿怨。他引以为傲的「高市值」为他带来了比当年更加「宽容」的环境,舆论关键词从「欺骗」变成了更加政治正确的...
评分本书最惊心动魄的部分应该是从第十九章“线报”(The Tip)开始的。作者作为《华尔街日报》的调查记者在这一章正式登场,联系线人拿料、多方求证、与Theranos手段肮脏的超级律师团周旋过招(看完以后觉得调查记者这个职业真是太帅气了!),最后终于在2015年10月15日的华尔街日...
评分I still remembered searching WIPO for Theranos's patents and FDA establishment registration back in 2015, and was disappointed to find that there's little evidence that this company was worth 9 billion. I've been since following the Theranos's downfall, whi...
评分本书最惊心动魄的部分应该是从第十九章“线报”(The Tip)开始的。作者作为《华尔街日报》的调查记者在这一章正式登场,联系线人拿料、多方求证、与Theranos手段肮脏的超级律师团周旋过招(看完以后觉得调查记者这个职业真是太帅气了!),最后终于在2015年10月15日的华尔街日...
评分这几乎是一个难分「梦想」和「谎言」的时代。九零后的币圈明星一边创造了「巴菲特午餐」的新竞拍纪录,一边又顺手「还击」了当年看他如同「打量骗子的眼神」的旧日宿怨。他引以为傲的「高市值」为他带来了比当年更加「宽容」的环境,舆论关键词从「欺骗」变成了更加政治正确的...
集硅谷startup反面案例之大成,终于出版了。一晚上啃一半,爱不释手
评分写得妙!简直和看悬疑小说一样。商场如战场,血腥多灾。Holmes虽能将诸大佬玩弄于股掌,但没能力研发产品、没能力管理公司,最终身败名裂。同时看到了言论自由的重要性。记者即是战士,舍命报道。
评分开头铺得还不错,感觉像是个豪门浪女,后来发现就是个三代破落户。后面陷入了反复攻击同一问题的鬼打墙,找了几十个人来作证Sunny和Elizabeth的管理近乎恐吓暴政,然后产品不完善的情况下到处兜售。对于为什么有名望的旧贵族、市场份额巨大的药企买Theranos的诡计,统统归咎于小妞的个人说服力和低沉的嗓音(小妞具体说了什么又没调查到),这就很滑稽了。我看了她好几个采访,这个女的其实语言效率极其低,逻辑也不算好。 是什么魅力让她真的说服大家去接受一个半吊子产品? 美元上印着 in god we trust,还是要深挖一下,为什么这些人怕被 missed out, 他们相信这个小妞背后其实在相信什么? 比较二流吧。传记作家和调查记者都是靠写作对象活的,你不是真正的爱她的是畏惧她我觉得还是不配拿普
评分Book of the year (by fat margin)!!! 本来以为是女骗子的独角戏,结果是一场精彩无比动人心魄的群戏。这群雄心勃勃、骄傲自大又急于求成的人啊,简直就是当今商业世界的生动白描。
评分其实不仅是硅谷,全世界很多初创企业都遵循着fake-it-until-you-make-it模式,只要不越过红线,投资者还是很宽容的。
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