Bad Blood: Secrets and Lies in a Silicon Valley Startup

by John Carreyrou

“I don’t care. We can change people in and out,” she responded. “The company is all that matters.”

“When you strike at the king, you must kill him.”

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

Someone as outspoken as Dupuy was bound not to last long at Theranos.

With time, some employees grew less afraid of him and devised ways to manage him, as it dawned on them that they were dealing with an erratic man-child of limited intellect and an even more limited attention span.

Hyping your product to get funding while concealing your true progress and hoping that reality will eventually catch up to the hype continues to be tolerated in the tech industry.