Bad Blood

racketeering lawsuit in which he’d accused the man and three of his gardeners of conspiracy, fraud, extortion, and—last but not ...

approached about representing Theranos by Larry Ellison and another investor, it was that overarching concern that had been comm ...

courier between his father and a college friend who worked at the law firm Skadden, Arps, Slate, Meagher & Flom. The college ...

documents] does not mean the firm did not maintain confidentiality,” the judge wrote. Yet Boies was still in business: while dis ...

While John Fuisz’s anger was boiling over, his father and brother were becoming concerned with how expensive the litigation was ...

degrees had done the work she’d patented. As the two sides prepared for trial, Fuisz noticed one name that appeared as a co-inve ...

I | TWELVE | Ian Gibbons an Gibbons was the first experienced scientist Elizabeth had hired after launching Theranos. He came re ...

doing her graduate research. They’d never had children, but Ian doted on their dogs Chloe and Lucy and on Livia, a cat he’d name ...

deadlines. Elizabeth’s loose relationship with the truth was another point of contention. Ian had heard her tell outright lies m ...

movie Women in Love in Ian’s office and they got to talking. The 1969 film was based on D. H. Lawrence’s novel of the same name ...

Over the next two years, Tom had noticed Ian’s growing gloom. As they sat down for lunch at Fish Market, Tom wondered whether Ia ...

“Paul, it has to be done right,” Ian would say. Sunny had put a man named Samartha Anekal, who had a Ph.D. in chemical engineeri ...

Theranos’s patent portfolio in the hope that she could give him some advice. While doing so, she noticed that Elizabeth’s name w ...

Rochelle had known for a while that Ian wasn’t well, but she’d had other concerns weighing on her mind: she was grieving her mot ...

him. She never followed up and no service was held. Longtime colleagues of Ian’s like Anjali Laghari, a chemist who had worked c ...

“Y | THIRTEEN | Chiat\Day ou’re the leader.” Click. Click. Click. “Strong, powerful.” Click. Click. “Think of your mission.” Cli ...

Patrick. A strikingly handsome man with blond hair, blue eyes, and the sculpted physique of someone who worked out religiously, ...

— PATRICK AND A GROUP of his Chiat\Day colleagues had been flying up to Palo Alto once a week to brainstorm with Elizabeth, Sunn ...

and took pictures of it against a white background. Patrick then made a photo montage showing it balancing on the tip of a finge ...

he’d arrived at what seemed like extremely aggressive sales targets, Sunny gave vague and boastful answers. Normally, companies ...