Bad Blood

who learn English as a second language of always speaking in the present tense. A member of Theranos’s board had recently approa ...

All these fluids needed to flow through the cartridge in a meticulously choreographed sequence, so the cartridge contained littl ...

— ED WAS WORKING late one evening when Elizabeth came by his workspace. She was frustrated with the pace of their progress and w ...

As obstinate as Elizabeth was, Ed knew there was one person who had her ear: a mysterious man named Sunny. Elizabeth had dropped ...

something else he had to deal with: Elizabeth had convinced Pfizer to try out the Theranos system in a pilot project in Tennesse ...

terminal cancer patients. — TO BLOW OFF STEAM, Ed went out for beers with Shaunak on Friday evenings at a raucous sports bar cal ...

jolt through the room. “We’ve called the FBI to assist us with the case.” Ed and Shaunak figured Gary Frenzel was probably freak ...

fourteen-page complaint in California Superior Court on August 27, It requested that the court issue a temporary restraining or ...

robot. But he didn’t want to waste time building one from scratch, so he ordered a three-thousand-dollar glue-dispensing robot f ...

which was proportional to the intensity of the light. This blood-testing technique was known as a chemiluminescent immunoassay. ...

building. About an hour later, Tony glanced out the window and noticed that Ed was still standing outside, his jacket slung over ...

F | THREE | Apple Envy or a young entrepreneur building a business in the heart of Silicon Valley, it was hard to escape the sha ...

It sounded impressive and world changing to a medical neophyte like Ana, and Elizabeth seemed brilliant. But given that Ana woul ...

a colleague of theirs there. It wasn’t long before the Apple transplants began noticing that Elizabeth and Theranos had their qu ...

her what they were posting there. One of the assistants kept track of when employees arrived and when they left so that Elizabet ...

Acto precision cutting knives that Justin had fished out of a wastebasket and claimed as his own. Aaron mentioned that he was al ...

AVIE WAS ONE of Steve Jobs’s oldest and closest friends. They’d worked together at NeXT, the software company Jobs created after ...

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 ...