‘Therabros’ and ‘disappeared’ staffers: the 8 juiciest things we learned from John Carreyrou’s new Theranos book
Theranos this week laid off all but about two dozen of its remaining employees — the latest indignity for the once fabulously rich blood-testing company that’s become a parable for Silicon Valley hubris.
As with much of the flood of bad news for Theranos, word of the layoffs came from John Carreyrou, the investigative reporter at the Wall Street Journal who was the first to break the story of the company’s troubles in October 2015 and who later landed a string of Theranos-related scoops.
Carreyrou also happens to be the author of a new book on the company, “Bad Blood: Secrets and Lies in a Silicon Valley Startup,” which is being released on May 21. The first print, from the publishing house Alfred A. Knopf, will be 100,000 copies.
STAT obtained an advance copy
