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.
发表于2024-12-25
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评分I still remembered searching WIPO for Theranos's patents and FDA establishment registration back in 2015, and was disappointed to find that there's little evidence that this company was worth 9 billion. I've been since following the Theranos's downfall, whi...
评分文/夏丽柠 在美国记者约翰·卡雷鲁的非虚构作品《坏血》中,希拉洛斯(Theranos)公司的女老板伊丽莎白·霍姆斯,在美国硅谷被称为“女版乔布斯”。她在自己并不算长的创业生涯里,缔造了一个近乎完美的医疗神话。虽然乔布斯说过,“创新决定了你是领袖还是跟随者。”霍姆斯明...
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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.
全书最唏嘘的一段就是女主把George Schultz这个近百岁的大神耍得团团转,不惜和自己亲孙子决裂甚至差点搭上亲孙子的前途,说什么也要力保她。所以大家对老年人陷入诈骗宽容点吧…真的比中邪还可怕…
评分类似政治惊悚剧,写得非常精彩,作者开始调查后的几章节奏尤其好。主要聚焦于Theranos对内的混乱管理以及对外的谎言和bully。可惜作者没有进一步采访那些被忽悠的和没有被忽悠的VC或者董事会成员,因此也难以真正理解创始人的魅力和缺陷在哪里。本书遗留的问题挺多:初创公司如何平衡科研和商业化,生命科学的热潮究竟有多可靠,如何界定商业秘密和NDA的范围,违法行为本身是否可以受到商业机密法律的保护(个人感到在中国是不受保护的)。希望可以看到更多法律分析(但大概没什么人愿意看)。总的想法是,尽职调查真的很重要!
评分这本书虽然是非虚构,但是比侦探小说还要抓住我的心。作者的写作功力了得,同样的气氛,相似的事件被描述得各有千秋。故事本身非常吸引人,加上优美的文笔,阅读这本书,实在是令人喜悦。
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评分伊丽莎白管理下的Theranos大概是我能想象最令人恐惧的雇主。她为了让员工更长时间地工作,为员工提供工作晚饭。但晚餐要到8点钟才会就绪,这就意味着员工至少得10点之后才能离开办公室。她对公司所有的信息都严密掌控,每个人都只能分得碎片信息,没有人有权限了解the whole picture。她极端怀疑他人,让IT布下严密地监控网络。连同事之间的即时消息都无法送达,导致沟通效率极其低下。整个公司管理建立在secrecy和fear之上。可是人与其他生产工具不同的是,人能够感受到痛苦。 随后Theranos砸重金试图用一张张法律文书堵住受访者的嘴。有些人不愿同流选择沉默离开,有些人勇敢地讲述了真相。这两者都很棒。如果外界条件不允许我们毫无顾虑地做我们认为最正确的事情,起码可以选择不做帮凶。
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