Bad Blood: Secrets and Lies in a Silicon Valley Startup
John Carreyrou's only standalone book and his definitive account of the Theranos scandal.
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John Carreyrou is a French-American investigative journalist and nonfiction author who reported for The Wall Street Journal for two decades. His reporting has covered Islamist terrorism, the pharmaceutical industry, the U.S. healthcare system, spine-surgery corruption, and Theranos. His book Bad Blood chronicles the rise and collapse of the blood-testing startup Theranos and its founder, Elizabeth Holmes.
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- Bad Blood: Secrets and Lies in a Silicon Valley Startup
nonfiction · 2018
In 2014, Theranos founder and CEO Elizabeth Holmes was widely seen as the next Steve Jobs: a brilliant Stanford dropout whose startup “unicorn” promised to revolutionize the medical industry with its breakthrough device, which performed…
Frequently asked questions about John Carreyrou
Who is John Carreyrou?
John Carreyrou is an investigative journalist and nonfiction author best known for reporting on Theranos. He was a reporter at The Wall Street Journal for twenty years and is a two-time Pulitzer Prize winner.
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Where was John Carreyrou born and raised?
He was born in New York and raised in Paris. He later lived and worked in Brussels, Paris, and New York during his journalism career.
What is John Carreyrou best known for?
He is best known for his Wall Street Journal investigation of Theranos, the blood-testing company founded by Elizabeth Holmes. The reporting uncovered extensive deception and corporate fraud and became a major example of watchdog journalism focused on Silicon Valley.
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What influenced John Carreyrou as a journalist?
Carreyrou has said that reading All the President’s Men after college helped inspire him to become a newspaper reporter. He has also identified Wall Street Journal colleague Mark Maremont as an early mentor and nonfiction writer Erik Larson as a major writing influence.
What awards has John Carreyrou won?
Carreyrou has won two Pulitzer Prizes as part of Wall Street Journal teams: the 2003 prize for corporate-scandal coverage and the 2015 Investigative Reporting prize for “Medicare Unmasked.” His Theranos reporting also received the George Polk Award for Financial Reporting, the Gerald Loeb Award, and the Barlett & Steele Silver Award.
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