![]() ![]() ![]() ![]() That style is appreciated by this subscriber of the paper daily, but the book-length treatment suffers a bit from a lack of charisma. Part of the challenge is Carreyrou’s laconic WSJ tone, with its “just the facts” attitude that is punctuated only occasionally by brief interludes on the motivations and psychology of its characters. The swift decline of Theranos and its protective legal apparatus has done this story a lot of good: many of the anonymous sources that underpinned Carreyrou’s WSJ coverage are now public and visible, allowing the author to weave together the various articles he published into a holistic and complete story.Īnd yet, what I found in the book was not all that thrilling or shocking, but rather astonishingly pedestrian. John Carreyrou’s tenacious and intrepid reporting at the Wall Street Journal would ultimately expose one of the largest frauds ever perpetrated in Silicon Valley.īad Blood is the culmination of that investigative reporting. The story of the fraudulent rise and precipitous fall of the company and its entrepreneur, Elizabeth Holmes, is also the singular story of the journalist who chronicled the company. Theranos reached that summit, and it all came crashing down. ![]() In a world where thousands and thousands of startups are started in the Bay Area every year, becoming a name that everyone recognizes is no small feat. ![]()
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