Bad Blood

licensed doctor, he had sold a company that made medical-training films for more than $50 million a few years earlier and drove ...

in search of job leads and business advice. With one of his sons from a previous marriage, Fuisz had started a new company aroun ...

partake of our hospitality (New York apartment, dinners, etc.) made it particularly bitter to me that they would not ask for adv ...

agency a few years earlier after coming across one of its ads in the classified pages of the Washington Post. Fuisz’s work for t ...

indignity. Loucks was a Yale alumnus and served as a trustee of the Yale Corporation, the university’s governing body. He was al ...

to lie in front of the fireplace while he worked. Fuisz came upon the startup’s website. The home page gave a cursory descriptio ...

from these norms—a notice would be given the user or health professional to repeat the sampling. If the significant difference p ...

neighborhood. One day, Noel came over to the Fuisz home for lunch. Richard joined them out on the house’s big stone patio and th ...

veiled threat by bringing up the fact that John Fuisz, another one of Fuisz’s sons from his first marriage, worked for his best ...

online database. However, Theranos didn’t learn of its existence for another five months until Gary Frenzel, the head of Therano ...

of left field. He had no idea who Richard Fuisz was nor what patent he was referring to. As a favor to his old friend, he nevert ...

Theranos had moved all its patent work to the Silicon Valley law firm Wilson Sonsini two years earlier, in 2006. Chuck remembere ...

C | SIX | Sunny helsea Burkett was burning out. It was the late summer of 2009 and she was working long hours at a Palo Alto sta ...

exchanges, Chelsea mentioned her job blues, prompting Elizabeth to write back, “Why don’t you come work for me?” Chelsea went to ...

effort to be nicer to her in deference to her friendship with Elizabeth. She didn’t understand what her friend saw in this man, ...

company’s second-highest-ranking executive, Sunny pocketed more than $40 million. His timing was perfect. Five months later, the ...

firm had knowingly misled him. The suit was settled on undisclosed terms in 2008. Tax troubles aside, Sunny was proud of his wea ...

began to suspect that Elizabeth was downplaying to the board the breadth of Sunny’s role. There was also the murky question of w ...

involved a transatlantic round-trip of ones and zeros: when the blood test was completed, a cellular antenna on the reader beame ...

What Chelsea didn’t know at the time was that one of their pharmaceutical partners had already walked away from the startup. Ear ...