Summary

Author’s Note - The author, John Carreyrou offers the information that what follows is taken from extensive interviews; that some of the subjects of those interviews asked that their names be withheld for privacy reasons; and that quotes are taken from legal depositions, emails or other documents, or are constructed from the best available memories of the individuals involved. He also says that “Elizabeth Holmes, as is her right … chose not to cooperate with this account” (x).

Prologue:

In the aftermath of what had been described as a very successful marketing trip to Switzerland, Henry Mosley, the chief financial officer of successful Silicon Valley startup Theranos, notices that not everyone who was on the trip seems to feel as positively about it as Theranos’ founder, the charismatic Elizabeth Holmes. Narration describes how Holmes, a dropout of Stanford University...