Bad Blood

can’t convince me that you’re stupid. They can, however, convince me that you’re wrong and in this case I do believe that you’re ...

Erika agreed that it was worth a try. When they got there, however, it quickly became apparent to Tyler that his grandfather’s a ...

while processing Erika’s resignation in her office a few minutes later, Mona asked if she had taken anything from the company. T ...

R | SEVENTEEN | Fame ichard and Joe Fuisz sat warily across from David Boies and one of his partners at a table in the lobby lou ...

More damaging, though, had been Richard Fuisz’s own courtroom testimony two days earlier. Boies had caught him in a series of po ...

and Boies discussing raising cattle, which Boies had some experience with from the ranch he owned in Napa Valley. When the conve ...

things to quiet down, but then he could start sending work John’s way. He suggested they get John on the phone to talk it over. ...

to a deal that gave Theranos everything it wanted before he’d had a chance to tell his side of the story in court. In his pique, ...

ebullient Boies about the case and decided she should try to get him some press about it. She offered to come brief the Fortune ...

could perform as many as seventy different blood tests from one tiny finger-stick draw and she led him to believe that the more ...

WHEN PARLOFF’S COVER STORY was published in the June 12, 2014, issue of Fortune, it vaulted Elizabeth to instant stardom. Her Jo ...

wasn’t entirely her doing. Her emergence tapped into the public’s hunger to see a female entrepreneur break through in a technol ...

cancer—the same story Tyler Shultz had found so inspiring when he’d started working at Theranos. It was true that Elizabeth’s un ...

inspirational quotes in little frames around the old Facebook building. One of them was from Michael Jordan: “I’ve missed more t ...

commercials, to make video ads the company ran on TV stations in the Phoenix area and on its website and YouTube channel. One of ...

A | EIGHTEEN | The Hippocratic Oath lan Beam, Theranos’s laboratory director, was late to the party. A white tent had been set u ...

bouncy house like an excited child. This year, the bouncy house was replaced by an inflatable boxing ring. While employees weari ...

context and a good understanding of how clinical laboratories operate. It was also hard to prove everything. The company kept th ...

When he looked up, Alan saw that Young was staring at them from across the bar. His face was white as a ghost’s. — THREE WEEKS L ...

information learned during his employment at the company. And it included this line: “I do not have any electronic or hard copy ...