Bad Blood

W | EIGHT | The miniLab ith Walgreens and Safeway on board as retail partners, Elizabeth suddenly faced a problem of her own mak ...

whatever equipment and supplies they wanted. Elizabeth christened the machine she assigned them to build the “miniLab.” As its n ...

analyzers could do the entire range of laboratory tests. In Elizabeth’s mind, that was going to be the miniLab’s selling point. ...

A few weeks after the voice incident, Greg picked up another clue that Theranos wasn’t your usual workplace. He had become frien ...

When he first arrived at the company, Christian didn’t have much to do, so he spent part of his days reading about sports. He hi ...

different times using different exits. They were also careful never to return at the same time or together. Ted Pasco, who had l ...

A month or two after Jobs’s death, some of Greg’s colleagues in the engineering department began to notice that Elizabeth was bo ...

Sunny were furious. They viewed it as a major conflict of interest and asked him to transfer his bike-lights patent to Theranos. ...

meeting that he could refer back to the following week to keep emotions out of it. Several times, Elizabeth came downstairs to t ...

figure. A modern-day Marie Curie. Six weeks later, they were back at the Fogarty Winery, this time to celebrate the Safeway alli ...

did. He leaned menacingly over the conference table. His huge, muscular frame towered over Sunny. “God damn it, we are working o ...

measure to match the size of the dent on the Acura to the scrape on his car, a trick he’d learned from watching cops do it. John ...

humans have ever built or if you’re cynical, then you should leave,” she said, reprising the themes of her Christmas speech. The ...

property. When the officer asked what he’d taken, Sunny blurted out in his accented English, “He stole property in his mind.” ...

S | NINE | The Wellness Play afeway’s business was doing poorly. The supermarket chain had just announced a 6 percent drop in it ...

named “Project T-Rex.” It referred to none other than the company’s partnership with Theranos, which by now—February 2012—was tw ...

1974 and climbed the corporate ranks to become one of Burd’s top deputies, and other executives involved in the project were sur ...

military assignment had been to run the European wing of Tricare, the health insurance program for active and retired servicemen ...

certainly had prostate cancer. But Bradley was skeptical. As he had done with the other employees, he sent his worried colleague ...

would have noticed that it didn’t contain a single Theranos proprietary device. That’s because the miniLab was still under devel ...