Bad Blood: Secrets and Lies in a Silicon Valley Startup

Great story and very timely cautionary tale about what NOT to do as an entrepreneur in SV. Writing is a bit underwhelming in places, but overall solid and certainly hard to put down towards the end. Appreciated the description of the trial afterwards. Sad to think that EH could have lived a relatively normal life if she had just folded when it was clear she was attempting something far too difficult and ambitious; a little bit of humility would have gone a long way.

Riveting. Honestly, much of the story is so absolutely farcical that if this book had been published as fiction I would have rolled my eyes and written the author off as someone who hadn't even tried to make the characters believable. The truth of Holmes and Balwani is a hard pill to swallow. That so many clearly intelligent people on the Theranos staff, with PhDs no less, would let such egregious data crimes be committed is frightening. There should be a special category for books like this, i.e. non-fiction events for stories that are stranger than fiction. You cannot make this stuff up.

Excellent book! Provides insight into the perception of people towards scientific research and how feelings and desires mold public expectations of what science should deliver rather than what is possible. The book underscores the need to be critical, skeptical and to ask the right questions to dissect the credibility of outlandish claims.