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+title: "Bad Blood: A Review"
+date: 2020-05-01T23:39:18+05:30
+categories: ["Book Notes"]
+tags: ["non-fiction", "journalism", "audiobook"]
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+[Check it out on Goodreads](https://www.goodreads.com/review/show/2635590846)
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+## How to fool the world and become a Billionaire
+
+I remember hearing about *Elizabeth Holmes* when I was in my late teens, at that impressionable age when you get hyper-inspired by reading about icons that are going to change the world. There was a profile of her in Wired, with an eye-catching image of her wearing a turtleneck black sweater holding what looked like a test-tube with a tiny amount of blood with a science-y background. I remember it had made quite a distinct impression on my mind, no doubt helped by the fact that the profile had described her as *"this Stanford dropout 20-something who was hailed as being a younger version of Einstein, was going to change the world"*.
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+Undoubtedly, as so often happens, I forgot about people who were gonna change the world as I grew up. Then I heard about this book last year, which was getting enormously praised for its exposé of a Silicon Valley firm and was really surprised to find out that the company at the center of the storm was Theranos, the brainchild of Elizabeth Holmes. This book reads like a detective novel, meticulously giving the clues and binding the threads of the deception that Holmes had so carefully and brilliantly constructed and managed to fool the entire world. 
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+Read this one if you want to get a lesson in how not to emulate a leader.