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'Bad Blood' Traces Theranos' Fall from Silicon Valley Grace

In October of 2015, John Carreyrou, Pulitzer Prize winning investigative reporter for the Wall Street Journal, wrote an article exposing the troubling and deceptive business practices of Theranos, the blood testing start-up many believed would upend healthcare. The lure was driven by enigmatic founder Elizabeth Holmes, a Stanford dropout who was only 31 at the time of the exposé. Carreyrou's story initiated the precipitous fall of the $9 billion company and Holmes herself. He joins us to discuss his new book "Bad Blood and how he exposed a Silicon Valley story that was too good to be true.
Mina Kim
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Theranos CEO Elizabeth Holmes attends the 2016 Breakthrough Prize Ceremony on November 8, 2015 in Mountain View, California. (Photo: Kimberly White/Getty Images for Breakthrough Prize)

In October of 2015, John Carreyrou, Pulitzer Prize-winning investigative reporter for the Wall Street Journal, wrote an article exposing the troubling and deceptive business practices of Theranos, the blood testing start-up many believed would upend health care. The lure was driven by enigmatic founder Elizabeth Holmes, a Stanford dropout who was only 31 at the time of the exposé. Carreyrou’s story initiated the precipitous fall of the $9 billion company. He joins us to discuss his new book “Bad Blood” and how he exposed a Silicon Valley story that was too good to be true.

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John Carreyrou, investigative reporter, The Wall Street Journal; author, "Bad Blood: Secrets and Lies in a Silicon Valley Startup"

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