书籍介绍
The full inside story of the breathtaking rise and shocking collapse of Theranos, the multibillion-dollar biotech startup, by the prize-winning journalist who first broke the story and pursued it to the end, despite pressure from its charismatic CEO and threats by her lawyers.
In 2014, Theranos founder and CEO Elizabeth Holmes was widely seen as the female Steve Jobs: a brilliant Stanford dropout whose startup "unicorn" promised to revolutionize the medical industry with a machine that would make blood testing significantly faster and easier. Backed by investors such as Larry Ellison and Tim Draper, Theranos sold shares in a fundraising round that valued the company at more than $9 billion, putting Holmes's worth at an estimated $4.7 billion. There was just one problem: The technology didn't work.
A riveting story of the biggest corporate fraud since Enron, a tale of ambition and hubris set amid the bold promises of Silicon Valley.
AI导读
核心看点
- 揭秘Theranos从90亿独角兽到崩盘的惊天骗局
- 展现调查记者对抗权贵与律师团的重重阻力
- 剖析创始人魅力营销与内部恐怖管理的反差
适合谁读
- 对硅谷创业史、商业伦理及科技泡沫感兴趣的读者
- 关注调查性新闻报道、媒体运作及新闻自由的读者
- 希望了解职场PUA、公司治理陷阱的职场人士
读前提醒
- 前半部分上帝视角略显生硬，后半部第一人称更紧凑
- 涉及大量法律与医疗术语，非专业读者可略读细节
- 建议结合电影《坏血》观看，体验双重叙事视角
读者共识
- 情节如悬疑小说般惊心动魄，阅读体验欲罢不能
- 作者揭露真相的勇气令人敬佩，获普利策奖实至名归
- 不仅是骗局记录，更是对人性贪婪与盲从的深刻警示
本导读基于书籍简介、目录、原文摘录、短评和书评生成，不等同于全文精读。
精彩摘录
- "Sunny had elevated a group of ingratiating Indians to key positions."
- "For the dozens of Indians Theranos employed, the fear of being fired was more than just the dread of losing a paycheck. Most were on H-1B visas and dependent on their continued employment at the company to remain in the country. With a despotic boss like Sunny holding their fates in his hands, it wa"
- "Sunny, in fact, had the master-servant mentality common among an older generation of Indian businessmen. Employees were his minions. He expected them to be at his disposal at all hours of the day or night and on weekends."
- "Arnav Khannah, a young mechanical engineer who worked on the miniLab, figured out a surefire way to get Sunny off his back: answer his emails with a reply longer than five hundred words."
- "...But watching her confidently walk the audience through her sleek slide show helped crystalize for me how she'd gotten this far: she was an amazing saleswoman. She never once stumbled or lost her train of thought. She wielded both engineering and laboratory lingo effortlessly and she showed seemin"
- "在访问期间，她提起了我的报道。告诉他我所搜集的信息是错误的，如果发表，将对希拉洛斯造成巨大损害。默多克表示异议，说他相信报纸的编辑会公正地处理此事。 到9月底，我们正在紧锣密鼓地准备发表报道的时候，在曼哈顿中城的新闻集团大厦第八层的办公室，霍姆斯第四度与默多克会面。我在《华尔街日报》新闻编辑部的办公桌就在三层楼底下，但我不知道她在楼里。她再次迫切地提到我的报道，希望默多克可以将其毙掉。再一次，他无视自己的大额投资的可能风险，拒绝加以干预。"
- "在《华尔街日报》，我们有个很重要的基本守则，叫做”不惊讶原则“（no surprise)。在刊登之前，我们一定会先把收集到的每项资料，拿去知会报道当事人，给他们充分时间和机会提出说法和反驳"
- "但在他（艾维）把发生的一切通通告诉朋友之后，这位朋友问了一个帮助他正确看待形势的问题:“按照你现在了解的关于这家公司的一切，你真的还想从它那里分得更多的东西吗？”"
作者简介
John Carreyrou is a two-time Pulitzer Prize-winning investigative reporter at The Wall Street Journal. For his extensive coverage of Theranos, Carreyrou was awarded the George Polk Award for Financial Reporting, the Gerald Loeb Award for Distinguished Business and Financial Journalism in the category of beat reporting, and the Barlett & Steele Silver Award for Investigative Business Journalism. Carreyrou lives in Brooklyn with his wife and three children.
用户评论
写得妙！简直和看悬疑小说一样。商场如战场，血腥多灾。Holmes虽能将诸大佬玩弄于股掌，但没能力研发产品、没能力管理公司，最终身败名裂。同时看到了言论自由的重要性。记者即是战士，舍命报道。
话题很抓人眼球，但是作者的书写水平盛名之下其实难副，直到读到最后才感觉之所以能获得普利策奖更大的可能性是在于作者的勇气，他要面对的阻力是来自于政界高层人物，法律界和风投界大佬，这份视死如归的勇气是读完这本书最大的收获。至于故事的内容就是翻来覆去说那么几个点罢了。应了古话树倒猢狲散，墙倒众人推。 Theranos能走到那个高位和EH的个人魅力有多大关系，我认为不见得有必然联系，更有可能是因为Theranos兜售的概念是新颖的，各界大佬生怕错过机会，就像国内对于新兴概念的爆炒，最后都是投资人倒霉。好在Theranos没有成功，毕竟这是关乎性命的事情，作者如果能够更深入的探讨这种现象背后的诱因，这书就真升华了。为什么那么多猴精的风投会上当受骗，技术壁垒是一部分原因，更多的恐怕是贪婪吧。
超级无敌好评，欲罢不能，用三个下午读完了。故事讲得惊心动魄，了解商业社会的运作模式、调查性新闻、美国上层社会的人情世故、法律运作，学英语，或者单纯看热闹，都是极推荐的好书。
九月的时候，读了一半不想读了。倒不是写得不好，主要是主人公把创业时该犯的错误全犯了，简直是创业失败教科书。
Ian Gibbons的故事特别令人难受。
很扎实！虽然先看了HBO纪录片加看了不少相关报道，以至于读完也没有看到很多新的信息
fake it until make it culture in SV is so toxic
他揭露了这件事的真相，但是没有揭露每个角色的真相。
1.后半部分写得惊心动魄；2.看时的一部分感受后面作者帮忙总结了，硅谷这种仅靠故事融资再做产品的案例比比皆是，最出名的就是搞火箭那个，但这种生物科技公司也靠这套路就有点无底线了；3.作者很会煽动读者情绪；4.对律师的好感度跌到负数；5.作者还是挺让人敬佩的
总的来说，就是很有趣的故事，期待后续的发展。
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