BAD BLOOD
SECRETS AND LIES IN A SILICON VALLEY STARTUP
John Carreyrou
November 17, 2006
BAD BLOOD – Tim Kemp had good news for his team.
The former IBM executive was in charge of bioinformatics at Theranos, a startup with a cutting-edge blood-testing system. The company had just completed its first big live demonstration for a pharmaceutical company.
Elizabeth Holmes, Theranos’s twenty-two-year-old founder, had flown to Switzerland and shown off the system’s capabilities to executives at Novartis, the European drug giant.
