Bad Blood

In late October 2007, he attended a meeting of the board’s compensation committee. Don Lucas, the board’s chairman, told the com ...

IN THE MEANTIME, Ana Arriola was getting antsy. Ana was by nature excitable. She spoke quickly and was a constant whirlwind of a ...

resignation letter and printed out two copies, one for Elizabeth and one for HR. Elizabeth was out of the office by then, so she ...

facto cofounder, was leaving the company and selling most of his founder’s shares back to Elizabeth. She needed the board to wai ...

getting in touch with other members of the board, but none would respond to his calls. Unsure what to do, Avie consulted a frien ...

I | FOUR | Goodbye East Paly n early 2008, Theranos moved to a new building on Hillview Avenue in Palo Alto. It was the Silicon ...

security. He was the one who’d done the forensic analysis of the computer evidence for the Michael O’Connell lawsuit. Planning t ...

running in the parking lot overnight. After several crazed hours, Matt was finally able to talk some sense into her by pointing ...

shouldn’t have browsed porn on a work-issued laptop, but Matt didn’t think it was a capital offense that merited blackmailing hi ...

big for a startup that had just shrunk back down to fifty people after the Ed Ku layoffs. The main floor was a long rectangular ...

atop the cat door at an angle. Inside, the robotic arm made loud, grinding sounds. Sometimes, it would crash against the cartrid ...

A few days after the San Francisco excursion, Aaron was sipping a beer at home and downloading the pictures he’d taken when an i ...

Aaron decided he better fess up before things got further out of control. He sheepishly came forward and confessed to Tony. It w ...

drugmakers and had listened uncomfortably as she promised them the moon. When the drugmakers’ executives asked if the Theranos s ...

avail. When they showed up at Novartis’s Basel offices the next morning, it got worse: all three Edison readers produced error m ...

Thomas, the founder of an early stage venture capital firm called ATA Ventures—conferred inside. After some discussion, the four ...

turnover was like nothing he’d ever experienced before and he was troubled by what he saw as a culture of dishonesty at the comp ...

disease here is what we should be curing before we try to tackle obesity...I mean no ill will towards you, since you believe in ...

hopes would soon be dashed. ...

W | FIVE | The Childhood Neighbor hile Elizabeth was busy building Theranos, an old family acquaintance was taking an interest i ...