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A review by leyva13
Bad Blood: Secrets and Lies in a Silicon Valley Startup by John Carreyrou
3.0
2.75
The story is fascinating; the book isn’t. Repetitive. A lot of name of employees and medical and laboratory jargon.
Elizabeth (young, white, narcissist) fools old, rich, (mostly white) men into investing into her company. She promises a technology she could never produce. Employees who question her or company processes are fired or resign.
We hear what starts to sound like the same point over and over from different people’s perspective. Each described why test wouldn’t work. Not sure if it was the same problem each time but end result was same...they didn’t work.
Too often goes into detail about lab testing, blood work, and the technology around it. Could be interesting to some.
Loyalty is a big thing to Elizabeth (and Sunny). Author repeats that point few times over.
In what appears to be an effort to establish credibility, which I suppose is the job of an investigative journalist, it goes into detail on others’ pasts. Most of it was irrelevant.
Final few chapters, which is when it is author’s perspective from point when he was tipped to story, were the most interesting.
This should have been a 100-150 page book.
The story is fascinating; the book isn’t. Repetitive. A lot of name of employees and medical and laboratory jargon.
Elizabeth (young, white, narcissist) fools old, rich, (mostly white) men into investing into her company. She promises a technology she could never produce. Employees who question her or company processes are fired or resign.
We hear what starts to sound like the same point over and over from different people’s perspective. Each described why test wouldn’t work. Not sure if it was the same problem each time but end result was same...they didn’t work.
Too often goes into detail about lab testing, blood work, and the technology around it. Could be interesting to some.
Loyalty is a big thing to Elizabeth (and Sunny). Author repeats that point few times over.
In what appears to be an effort to establish credibility, which I suppose is the job of an investigative journalist, it goes into detail on others’ pasts. Most of it was irrelevant.
Final few chapters, which is when it is author’s perspective from point when he was tipped to story, were the most interesting.
This should have been a 100-150 page book.