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Bad Blood
John Carreyrou
Contributed by Andrea Barraza
Content
Overview
Context
Reviews
Chapter Summaries
Chapter 1
Chapter 2
Chapter 3
Chapter 4
Chapter 5
Chapter 6
Chapter 7
Chapter 8
Chapter 9
Chapter 10
Chapter 11
Chapter 12
Chapter 13
Chapter 14
Chapter 15
Chapter 16
Chapter 17
Chapter 18
Chapter 19
Chapter 20
Chapter 21
Chapter 22
Chapter 23
Chapter 24
Chapter 25
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Chapter Summaries
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Chapter Summary
Chapter 1
The book opens with a brief past presentation of Elizabeth Anne Holmes. She is described by the author as being the type of who aimed to become a rich...
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Chapter 2
In 2006, Elizabeth hired Edmond Ku to help her with the technical part of her prototype. He was disappointed when he first got in touch with the produ...
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Chapter 3
Since the beginning, Elizabeth wanted to obtain the heights of success and brand recognition associated with Apple products. Following this philosophy...
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Chapter 4
In 2008, the company moved to a new building in Palo Alto. The entire moving process was coordinated by Matt Bissell, the head of IT. During this time...
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Chapter 5
The Holmes family was good friend with the Fuisz family. The Fuisz had a son named Richard who was seen as a successful businessman in the medical fie...
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Chapter 6
At this point in the narrative, Carreyrou begins by describing the hiring of Chelsea Burkett, Elizabeth's best friend, at Theranos as a member of the ...
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Chapter 7
Since the Great Recession, Silicon Valley became a great target for investors because of the interest rate being close to zero, which prompted greater...
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Chapter 8
Even though Theranos had Walgreens and Safeway to support them, they were still lacking the technology requested in order to perform all the tests the...
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Chapter 9
Safeway started showing big drops in terms of their profit, but CEO Steve Burd's secret plan was their partnership with Theranos. He redesigned many o...
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Chapter 10
The next step of Theranos was to test the devices on the army members in Afghanistan. For this, Elizabeth held a speech where she met James Mattis, th...
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Chapter 11
This chapter brings the reader back to the previous incident regarding Richard Fuisz and the patent scandal. Elizabeth was still angry and believed th...
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Chapter 12
During the time when Elizabeth founded Theranos, she was introduced to Ian Gibbons, who was a chemistry specialist, and who was immediately hired by h...
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Chapter 13
In order to create their website and to elevate her brand, Elizabeth Holmes hired TBWA/Chiat/Day advertising agency to help her. There, she met Patric...
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Chapter 14
One day, Elizabeth asked Alan Beam and the other employers to join her for a test with the device. Everyone was curious to see what the results were b...
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Chapter 15
The Journal started writing about the Elizabeth Holmes and her plan to open the first Theranos wellness center in one of the Walgreens store. With the...
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Chapter 16
As a result of his grandfather position who was George Shultz, Tyler Shultz managed to get hired at Theranos in the laboratory where he met another fr...
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Chapter 17
After the trial started, Richard and Joe Fuisz decided to accept David Boies proposal and admit that they did a mistake and the patent does not belong...
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Chapter 18
As Alan Beam became more suspicious about the companies activities he decided to resign, but not before being asked by Sunny to sign the well-known no...
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Chapter 19
The person Adam Clapper contacted was John Carreyrou, a journalist at the Wall Street Journal and also the write of this book. After telling him the s...
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Chapter 20
Tyler Shultz is soon accused by Theranos of giving private information to a reporter. It seems like Elizabeth and Sunny found out that there is an inv...
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Chapter 21
The purpose of the meeting was to discuss with the Theranos representative and confront them regarding the information they gathered. When the day of ...
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Chapter 22
July 2015 was a great month for Theranos as they were approved by the FDA for their herpes virus finger stick test and also the population was now all...
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Chapter 23
Even though Rupert Murdoch, the owner of News Corporation, was one of the investors of Theranos, he stood away from all the arguing. Soon, Carreyrou a...
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Chapter 24
Erika Cheung contacted Gary Yamamoto, a CMS field inspector regarding the laboratories of Theranos and the behavior of Sunny Balwani towards this prob...
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Chapter 25
In 2018, Theranos published another peer review scientific journal regarding the minilab. Even so, the information provided in those papers were far f...
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