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John Carreyrou: Live at Politics and Prose

John Carreyrou: Live at Politics and Prose

FromLive at Politics and Prose


John Carreyrou: Live at Politics and Prose

FromLive at Politics and Prose

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Length:
71 minutes
Released:
Jun 29, 2018
Format:
Podcast episode

Description

Theranos, founded in 2003 by nineteen-year-old wunderkind Elizabeth Holmes, promised to revolutionize blood testing by developing technologies to miniaturize samples and so make testing fast, easy, and inexpensive. It seemed too good to be true—and was, as Carreyrou, a two-time Pulitzer Prize-winning Wall Street Journal reporter, revealed in a series of detailed articles. Undaunted by pressure from the company’s CEO and lawyers, Carreyrou raised enough doubts about Theranos policies, procedures, and promises that by 2015 Holmes and her corporation were being investigated by a host of medical authorities, investors, state attorneys general, the Securities and Exchange Commission, and others. Here Carreyrou recounts his riveting story of the biggest corporate fraud since Enron.https://www.politics-prose.com/book/9781524731656Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices
Released:
Jun 29, 2018
Format:
Podcast episode

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Readings and discussions featuring today's best authors, recorded live at Washington DC's famous Politics & Prose bookstore and presented by Slate.com.