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Bad Blood

Unbelievable but true

Rigorously reported and fearlessly written by prize-winning journalist John Carryrou. Bad Blood is a fast paced and gripping story of the biggest corporate fraud since Enron. A tale of ambition and hubris, set amid the bold promises of Silicon Valley.

In 2014, Theranos founder and CEO Elizabeth Holmes was widely seen as the next Steve Jobs. A brilliant Stanford dropout whose start-up promised to revolutionize the medical industry with its breakthrough device that performed the whole range of laboratory tests from a single drop of blood. Backed by high profile investors, Theranos was valued at more than $9 billion. There was just one problem, the technology didn’t work.

After the book came the podcast series The Drop Out, followed by the documentary ‘The Inventor’ and now a film staring Jennifer Lawrence is in the works. It’s a story that we just can’t get enough of!

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PODCASTS

The Dropout

Read the book, want to learn more and hear the voices ? Listen to the Podcast series The Drop Out. ABC News takes listeners on a journey that includes a three-year-long investigation. You’ll hear exclusive interviews with former employees, investors, and patients, and for the first-time, the never-before-aired deposition testimony of Elizabeth Holmes, and those at the centre of this story.

6 episodes of 40 mins.

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The Book Club Review of Bad Blood

(37 mins )

Kate and Laura sit down to chat about the books read most recently by their book clubs. What did they make of them? Did they spark debate? And did they love them or loath them, they always they try to answer the big question: were they great book club books? Find out what Kate’s book club thought about Bad Blood.

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Lessons of Theranos

(27 mins)

What can we learn from how one medical start-up fooled Silicon Valley and the world? How did she manage to deceive some of the world’s cleverest minds – and is there something about start-up culture and the cult of the visionary leader which encourages charlatans? Evan Davis and guests discuss. The Bottom Line, BBC Radio.

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Dr Phyllis Gardner, Stanford Professor & Theranos Critic.

(41 mins)

Dr Phyllis Gardner who worked behind the scenes to expose Holmes, discusses why ‘fake it till you make it’ doesn’t work in medicine and the human cost of the fraud. Danny in The Valley Podcast.

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VIDEOS

Theranos, Elizabeth Holmes, and the Cult of Silicon Valley

(31 mins )

Reason TV sat down with John Carreyrou, the Wall Street Journal reporter who unmasked Holmes. An interesting summary and interview with the man who pursued and broke the story. June 2018.

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Interview with Tyler Shultz, Theranos whistleblower

(9 mins)

Hear the story from the inside with Tyler Shultz. Shultz’s decision to speak up about fraud inside Theranos led to his being fired by the company, pressured to stay quiet by his family, and served with $400,000 in legal bills before he was ultimately vindicated.

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5 Signs You’re Dealing With A Narcissist

(12 mins )

You Tube video, 5 Signs You’re Dealing with A Narcissist, which uses Elizabeth Holmes as their primary example!

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ARTICLES

How John Carreyrou Exposed the Theranos Scam.

A Q&A with John Carreyrou the author of ‘Bad Blood: Secrets and Lies in a Silicon Valley Start-up. By Kate Knibbs for The Ringer, May 2018.

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Every Elizabeth Holmes Book, Movie, & Podcast & What You’ll Learn From It

Comparing what aspect of the story you’ll get from each medium, happy listening, reading, and viewing !

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Book Club Questions for Bad Blood

Great questions for your Book Club to use to further discussions and debate about the book. From bookriot.com

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The Nickel Boys

Heartbreakingly good

Colson Whitehead is the #1 New York Times bestselling author of The Underground Railroad, which in 2016 won the Pulitzer Prize in Fiction. The Nickel Boys, his follow up book, won Colson a second Pulitzer Prize for Fiction in 2020. He brilliantly dramatizes another strand of American history through the story of two boys sentenced to a hellish reform school in Jim Crow-era Florida. The book was named one of Time Magazine’s 10 best fiction books of the decade.

Th story is set at a time when the civil rights movement was spurring change, but progress was slow and certainly didn’t infiltrate the book’s fictional Nickel Academy where much of the story takes place. The Nickel Academy, a segregated reform school for boys, is based on the true story of the Arthur G. Dozier School for Boys in Florida.

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Educated

Astonishing self-invention

Tara Westover grew up preparing for the End of Days in rural Idaho with radical survivalist Mormon parents. She didn’t get a birth certificate until she was nine and had no medical records because her father did not believe in doctors. She and her six older siblings worked in her father’s junkyard. As she grew older, her father’s beliefs became more extreme and one of her brothers grew violent.

At 17, she decided to educate herself as a means of escape. Within 10 years she had earned a PhD in intellectual history and political thought from Cambridge but was estranged from her parents and half of her siblings. Now 31 and still living in Cambridge, Educated is her first novel and is about the transformative power of education and the price she had to pay for it.

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Girl, Woman, Other

Dazzling and masterful

This is Britain as you’ve never read it. This is Britain as it has never been told. From Newcastle to Cornwall, from the birth of the twentieth century to the teens of the twenty-first, Girl, Woman, Other follows a cast of twelve characters on their personal journeys through this country and the last hundred years. They’re each looking for something – a shared past, an unexpected future, a place to call home, somewhere to fit in, a lover, a missed mother, a lost father, even just a touch of hope . . .

Winner of the Booker Prize 2019

‘Beautifully interwoven stories of identity, race, womanhood, and the realities of modern Britain’

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Bad Blood

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