Bad Blood: Secrets and Lies in a Silicon Valley Startup

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.

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

FoMO—the fear of missing out.

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

“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.”

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

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

the hockey-stick forecast. It showed revenue stagnating for a few years and then magically shooting up in a straight line.