Kimberly T’s Reviews > Bad Blood: Secrets and Lies in a Silicon Valley Startup > Status Update

1. Dysfunctional work culture
2. Elizabeth’s unreasonable demands
3. Cheating

The perfect recipe for a start up :)

The miniLab is supposed to perform immunoassays, general chemistry assays, hematology, and dna amplification. In ONE box???

“With time, some employees grew less afraid of Sunny and devised ways to manage him, as it dawned on them they were dealing with an erratic man child of limited intellect and an even more limited attention span.”

LMAO

“No one at Theranos had bothered to think it through, as far as Kate could tell.”

What do you mean Theranos would get samples directly sent to them and they’re still lying about their results

“One source of recurring tension between Ian and the engineers was his insistence that the blood tests perform as accurately inside the Theranos devices as they did on the lab bench. The data he collected suggested that was rarely the case, which caused him considerable frustration.”

“Shoemaker and the little military delegation he was leading had been invited to Palo Alto to bless Theranos’ plans to deploy its devices in the Afghan war theatre, not to raise objections about its regulatory strategy.”

Oh boy. Tech that doesn’t work in warfare.

“With Walgreens and Safeway on board as retail partners, Elizabeth suddenly faced a problem of her own making: she told both companies her technology could perform hundreds of tests on small blood samples. The truth was the Edison could only do immunoassays…many other routine blood tests required completely different laboratory techniques.”

Elizabeth. Seriously.

“With her black turtleneck, her deep voice, and the green kale shakes she sipped on all day, Elizabeth was going to great lengths to emulate Steve Jobs, but she didn’t seem to have a solid understanding of what distinguished different types of blood tests. Theranos also failed to deliver to let him see its lab and to demonstrate a live vitamin D test on its device.”

“The company was lurching from one ill conceived initiative to another. … Encouraging someone to rely on a theranos blood test to make an important medical decision was something else altogether. Chelsea found it reckless and irresponsible.”

And she couldn’t tell anyone that she left!

Pfizer pulling out of collaboration with Theranos and this not being told to Chelsea running a study with a different pharmaceutical partner..