Stories from 'bad blood' book on Theranos and Elizabeth Holmes-Bozlun Blog

It's been several years since The Wall Street Journal's John Carreyrou first started exposing the fraud at blood-testing start-up Theranos. Since then, Carreyrou's 2018 book about the one-time Silicon Valley darling's meteoric rise to a $9 billion valuation and precipitous fall after it was revealed that its blood-testing devices were nowhere near capable of backing up the significant hype has become a best-seller.

Titled "Bad Blood: Secrets and Lies in a Silicon Valley Startup," Carreyrou's exhaustive reporting on Theranos and its founder and CEO, Elizabeth Holmes, included interviews with over 150 people, including more than 60 former Theranos employees.

Despite having raised more than $700 million from investors, the company is now on the verge of bankruptcy, even with Holmes herself having settled "massive fraud" charges after reaching a settlement with U.S. regulators in March 2018. Holmes' settlement with the SEC included a $500,000 fine and it bars her from leading a public company for the next decade.

"To anyone who spent time with Elizabeth, it was clear that she worshipped Jobs and Apple," Carreyrou writes.

According to the book, Holmes hired several former Apple employees, in part for their connection to the giant company, and she was fond of saying that Theranos' blood-testing device would be "the iPod of health care."

The book also notes that Holmes seemingly went out of her way to cultivate a similar "aura" to Jobs and took to wearing a black turtleneck most days, copying Jobs' own style, in order to "dress the part."

Holmes described Theranos' miniLab device as "the most important thing humanity has ever built"

That's the show-stopping description Holmes assigned to the miniLab at her company's 2011 Christmas party. The portable device, which she claimed could diagnose a wide range of diseases with just a few small drops of blood, was not introduced to the public until 2016, after the company had already been forced to void two years of results from its previous blood-testing device, the Edison, due to inaccuracy.

In its review of "Bad Blood," The New York Times called this "a good moment in American journalism."

Blood testing is a very esoteric topic for people. How do we learn about our health well? Smartwatch is a good choice.

Smartwatches of Bozlun own multi-Functions: Effortlessly and Quickly track all-day activity such as Pedometer, Distance, Calories Burned Measuring, Blood Oxygen/SpO2, HRV(Heart Rate Variability), Lorentz Scatter Diagram, Step,Heart rate monitor, Sleep monitor, Phone Call ID /SMS Text Show/Social Media Notification (Facebook Twitter Skype etc), Meeting/Medicine/Sedentary/Drink Reminder.

Click to take a look! https://bozlunofficial.com/