Ep. 28 Bad Blood by John Carreyrou -- The Stacks Book Club (Nancy Rommelmann)
This week on The Stacks Book Club, journalist and author Nancy Rommelmann is back to discuss Bad Blood: Secrets and Lies in a Silicon Valley Startup by John Carreyrou. We talk about the mind blowing story of biotech startup Theranos, and its founder Elizabeth Holmes. We talk about psychopaths, whistle blowers, and of course, this unbelievable story of abuse and fraud.
There are spoilers this week, however the book is based on current events and we do not discuss anything that isn't out in the news.
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Everything we talk about on today’s episode can be found below in the show notes and on Bookshop.org and Amazon
To The Bridge by Nancy Rommelmann
Bad Blood by John Carreyrou
Powell's Books (Portland, OR)
"How One Company Scammed Silicon Valley. And How It Got Caught." (Roger Lowenstein, New York Times)
Book Soup (Los Angeles, CA)
Ponzi Supernova (Radio Lab, Audible)
"The Lies and Follies of Laura Albert, a.k.a. JT LeRoy" (Nancy Rommelmann, LA Weekly)
The Tender Bar by J.R. Moehringer
Wild Wild Country (Netflix)
Bad Blood (Film)
Joy (20th Century Fox)
The Hunger Games (Lionsgate)
Game of Thrones (HBO)
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