Seeing that made the two restauranteurs scarringly infamous, and it’s easy to dislike them when we’re in the shoes of the people they shouted at. One worker ended up put to tears and quit on the spot. That episode, as well as shattering a record, introduced an environment that a big majority of viewers said was unacceptable taking away tips meant for the server, a reveal of mass firings, and a sense of downright aggression. This is a book told from the point of view of the journalist, John Carreyrou, who was brought this story from a whistleblower, and did the investigating which eventually led to the company’s collapse and Elizabeth and Sunny’s criminal convictions.ĭoes anyone remember Samy and Amy Bouzaglo from Kitchen Nightmares, the only restaurant that caused Gordon Ramsay to have to walk out on them? It’s relatively likely you or a friend of yours have heard of them. And it was struggling for a multitude of reasons, such as unreasonable zero tolerance policies and unrealistic expectations, but the main factor was that it’s just biologically impossible for most blood tests to get accurate results from a few small drops nor drops from the hand rather than the arm. She and her much-older boyfriend Sunny Balwani ended up running a Silicon Valley startup called Theranos that struggled in its early years, then got a big boost from the world in the mid 2010s but was still struggling behind the scenes. Her pitch was a device, a small device, that could perform dozens, hundreds of blood tests with a simple practically painless prick of a finger and a few small drops. And she came up with an idea for a way to make blood testing not only easier and faster but less scary, stemming from her phobia of needles. Elizabeth as a child wanted to become a billionaire. If you haven’t heard about the real-life story of Elizabeth Holmes that inspired the Amanda-Seyfried led TV show The Dropout and a documentary of the same title and various articles, then here’s the basics. It’s quite an entertaining and fascinating accomplishment. But the story of Elizabeth Holmes is so fascinating, so tragic, so troubling, that I picked up Bad Blood, and it definitely surpasses barriers it sets for itself by having to be grounded in the logistics of journalism.

Probably not happening anytime soon, especially when if I’m interested in a real story, there’s an article or documentary or something on television that will tell it satisfyingly. That might change one day, but I’m 24 years old. I almost never read giant non-fiction books.

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