The author considers all these elements within the context of Ian Gibbons’ suicide, Tyler Shultz’s and Erika Cheung’s attempts to warn others about their concerns, and Alan Beam’s reluctance to keep defending Theranos against complaints from unhappy doctors. It also details a string of employees who were disillusioned with the company or left it. The rest of the story then covers Theranos’s financial growth, commercial success, and scientific struggles. It also discusses how one of the engineers who worked for Theranos became suspicious about what he saw happening there, eventually leaving his job as well.” The story then shifts to Elizabeth Holmes’ childhood and describes how that influenced her desire to make a lot of money and do good for people. The book begins by describing how the author was fired from her job at Theranos after she raised concerns about the company’s practices. The final quarter of the book describes events surrounding John Carreyrou’s writing about Theranos for the Wall Street Journal. The first three quarters of the book are written from a journalistic perspective and describe how Theranos came to be, as well as its meteoric rise to fame. The following book is an in-depth look at Theranos, a Silicon Valley startup that was lead by Elizabeth Holmes.
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