Bad Blood: Secrets and Lies in a Silicon Valley Startup

by John Carreyrou

“Don’t listen to them,” she’d said of the scientists. “They’re always complaining.”

When the officer asked what he’d taken, Sunny blurted out in his accented English, “He stole property in his mind.”

I will not let Elizabeth Holmes have another fucking company as long as she lives. I will use my ability to file patents and fuck with her till she dies, absolutely.

okay but…this is cool?

Theranos argued that, since its testing process was fully automated inside its device, that was grounds enough to say that it was more accurate than other labs.

Henry Kissinger,

i should have known i would see this dumbass’s name in here. he really is the forrest gump of war crimes

Some were so high that the only way they could have been accurate was if the patients were dead.

because Henry Kissinger arrived late

fucking useless in all aspects i see

Monday, March 31, 2014,

birthday slay

“They’re trying to convince me that you’re stupid. They can’t convince me that you’re stupid. They can, however, convince me that you’re wrong and in this case I do believe that you’re wrong.”

the I TOLD YOU SO that would come from my mouth after her sentencing would reach a decibel so loud it would cause new fault lines to open up on this earth

this was someone his good friend Henry Kissinger considered to be the smartest man alive.

i digress

At one point, he’d had to talk Sunny and Elizabeth out of running HIV tests on diluted finger-stick samples.

The decade-old episode had left Phyllis skeptical that Elizabeth, who had no medical or scientific training to speak of and a clear tendency not to listen to people who were older and more experienced, had really gone on to develop groundbreaking blood-testing technology.

Balwani had tasked a Theranos software engineer named Michael Craig to write an application for the miniLab’s software that masked test malfunctions. When something went wrong inside the machine, the app kicked in and prevented an error message from appearing on the digital display. Instead, the screen showed the test’s progress slowing to a crawl.

The number of test results Theranos voided or corrected in California and Arizona eventually reached nearly 1 million.

Holmes had never sold any of her shares and therefore had never profited, so how could she be accused of defrauding anyone?

DeVos family office, which had invested $100 million in Theranos in the fall of 2014.

we can count on the devos family to be Dumb As Fuck