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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