Bad Blood: Secrets and Lies in a Silicon Valley Startup

Christopher Weaver and John Carreyrou, “Theranos Offers

“We can’t not pursue this,” he said. “We can’t risk a scenario where CVS has a deal with them in six months and it ends up being real.”

And why hadn’t a single venture capital firm with expertise in health care put money into the company?

The fear of missing out was a powerful deterrent.

It made for an unnerving work environment: a colleague might be there one day and gone the next and you had no idea why.

She also agreed to be barred from being an officer or director in a public company for ten years.

As the tug-of-war with Heather King over the inspection report dragged on, news surfaced that Holmes would be hosting a fund-raiser for Hillary Clinton’s presidential campaign at Theranos’s headquarters in Palo Alto. She had long cultivated a relationship with the Clintons, appearing at several Clinton Foundation events and forging a friendship wit

FoMO—the fear of missing out.

“When you strike at the king, you must kill him.”