Cannonball Read 17

Sticking It to Cancer One Book at a Time

“Now did you think it all through? All these things will catch up to you…” (Double bingo)

Bad Blood: Secrets and Lies in a Silicon Valley Startup by John Carreyrou

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Nowhere Book Bingo: From a genre you’ve never read (true crime) CBR16 Bingo: Fiasco (Theranos was a massive fraud and a fiasco) I’ve owned this book since 2020 and am pretty sure I picked it up in an e-book sale because of the many Cannonball reviews I’ve read about it over the years. Not being particularly interested in the tech world or medical science, and certainly, not someone who reads a lot of business news, I didn’t really hear about this case as it was […]

Cause baby now we got bad blood

Bad Blood: Secrets and Lies in a Silicon Valley Startup by John Carreyrou

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OMG this book annoyed me so much!  The writing was great, and it was so well investigated, but the characters drove me bonkers!  To think that they’re all real people makes me even madder.  I borrowed this book from my library back in the winter.  I got about fifty pages in and was just so frustrated with it that I ran out of time and didn’t get to finish before someone else placed a hold.  Then I kinda forgot about it for a while.  Once […]

CBRBingo – True Story. Taylor Swift has NOTHING on Holmes

Bad Blood: Secrets and Lies in a Silicon Valley Startup by John Carreyrou

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CBR Bingo: True Story What. A. Mesmerizing. Mess.  I had only the most basic cliff noted exposure to the complete cluster that is Elizabeth Holmes and Theranos, but like many things, the truth is indeed stranger than fiction. This is so cartoonish an outlandish tale that it seems to be an almost “ripped from the headlines” Law and Order style exposition: ready your popcorn, for this juicy and awful tale of lies and the downfall of genius in the healthcare industry. Carreyrou is an impeccable […]

So take a look what you’ve done/ ‘Cause, baby, now we’ve got bad blood, hey!/ Now we’ve got problems/ And I don’t think we can solve ’em

Bad Blood: Secrets and Lies in a Silicon Valley Startup by John Carreyrou

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Bad Blood is the story of Theranos and its founder’s, Elizabeth Holmes, fall from grace following the revelation that the whole company was built on secrets and lies.  I was aware of Holmes and Theranos from the countless articles written about her before and after the truth came out but it wasn’t until I saw the HBO documentary The Inventor: Out for Blood that I really grasped how deep her deception went. By positioning Theranos as a tech company in the heart of the Valley, Holmes channeled […]

“It was as if Boeing built one plane and, without doing a single flight test, told airline passengers, ‘Hop aboard.’”

Bad Blood by John Carreyrou

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The following paragraphs are my meager attempt at Melrose Place fan fiction in order to demonstrate my feelings right now upon finishing this book. Please bear with me. Imagine it’s a Monday night in the late 1990s and you’re sitting on your couch watching TV, when Melrose Place comes on. Would you think it was crazy if something like this happened: Dr. Kimberly Shaw gets an idea to invent a medical device that could CHANGE THE WORLD. She tells everyone around her that her invention […]

Snake Oil in Silicon Valley

Bad Blood: Secrets and Lies in Silicon Valley by John Carreyrou

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Bad Blood: Secrets and Lies in a Silicon Valley Startup by John Carr Finished Feb. 5, 2019, took nine  days to read 5 Stars on Goodreads, but I would rate 4.5 Genre: Non-Fiction Rating 2/5 for 2019 overall, 1/1 for Non- Fiction This is the true story of the rise and fall of Elizabeth Holmes, founder of the “health care” company Theranos. I put health care in quotes because as we all know now, Theranos was basically a company built on false hopes and lies. Sure […]



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