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March Book Club
March 11, 2019 @ 7:00 pm - 8:30 pm
Monday, March 11th
7:00PM
Silver Diner
(Clarendon)
Free
For our March Book Club, we will be reading Bad Blood by John Carreyrou.
Book Description:
“In 2014, Theranos founder and CEO Elizabeth Holmes was widely seen as the female Steve Jobs: a brilliant Stanford dropout whose startup “unicorn” promised to revolutionize the medical industry with a machine that would make blood testing significantly faster and easier. Backed by investors such as Larry Ellison and Tim Draper, Theranos sold shares in a fundraising round that valued the company at more than $9 billion, putting Holmes’s worth at an estimated $4.7 billion. There was just one problem: The technology didn’t work.
A riveting story of the biggest corporate fraud since Enron, a tale of ambition and hubris set amid the bold promises of Silicon Valley.” –Amazon Editor
For more information, please contact Simay (CLAS ’14) and Jess (CLAS ‘14) at uvabookclub@dchoos.org