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Bad Blood: Secrets and Lies in a Silicon Valley Startup Highlight

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Hyping your product to get funding while concealing your true progress and hoping that reality will eventually catch up to the hype continues to be tolerated in the tech industry. But it’s crucial to bear in mind that Theranos wasn’t a tech company in the traditional sense. It was first and foremost a health-care company. Its product wasn’t software but a medical device that analyzed people’s blood.

— John Carreyrou

Replicated under Fair Use from Bad Blood: Secrets and Lies in a Silicon Valley Startup by John Carreyrou.