發表於2025-05-07
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.
Bad Blood 下載 mobi pdf epub txt 電子書 格式 2025
Bad Blood 下載 mobi epub pdf 電子書##對很多有關公司管理的問題都在我上一傢公司的工作經曆中有過似曾相識的感覺,但醫療行業涉及人命,對公司的管理水平、自查機製、道德底綫的要求都更高。想象這個公司如果在國內創立,有沒有可能會能夠支撐更久?國內跟風的有錢老闆/投資/投機機構和錢也非常多,所有已投資的投資人和創業公司組成利益相關體,可能會寜可知道有問題也要一起掩蓋好找到下一個接盤俠。不過一直不上市的計劃可能會讓很多人望而卻步,畢竟終極接盤俠是普羅大眾。 這書其實講瞭個挺明白的道理,專業的人做專業的事情,Elizabeth和最初支持她的大佬們都沒有係統紮實的醫學背景,完全是用工程師的思路在做這件事情,遇到問題他們的解決辦法是“邊吹邊解決”,但醫學突破不是工程技術問題,不可能一蹴而就,越是有deliver的壓力,就越有跨越紅綫的危險。
評分##類似政治驚悚劇,寫得非常精彩,作者開始調查後的幾章節奏尤其好。主要聚焦於Theranos對內的混亂管理以及對外的謊言和bully。可惜作者沒有進一步采訪那些被忽悠的和沒有被忽悠的VC或者董事會成員,因此也難以真正理解創始人的魅力和缺陷在哪裏。本書遺留的問題挺多:初創公司如何平衡科研和商業化,生命科學的熱潮究竟有多可靠,如何界定商業秘密和NDA的範圍,違法行為本身是否可以受到商業機密法律的保護(個人感到在中國是不受保護的)。希望可以看到更多法律分析(但大概沒什麼人願意看)。總的想法是,盡職調查真的很重要!
評分 評分 評分 評分 評分##寫得很一般啊。。。
評分##Bill Gates推薦Bad Blood一定是想讓大傢都來看看死對頭David Boies的醜事。
Bad Blood mobi epub pdf txt 電子書 格式下載 2025