The Journal said in a statement the policy exists to avoid the appearance of a conflict of interest: “The Journal has a deep commitment to the highest standards and ethics, including our guidelines around paid speaking engagements, because nothing is more important than the independence of our journalism. Paid speaking engagements are highly lucrative, with some journalists earning five-figure sums to give a speech to a company or organization. I’m grateful for everything they’ve done for me.” I’m in pretty high demand due to the success of the book. I respect the reasons for their policy but for me it meant leaving quite a bit of money on the table. If I were to do that or my colleagues do that it compromises the Journal. Reads like a West Coast version of All the President’s Men.“The Journal has a pretty blanket ban on its reporters taking money to speak publicly. In Bad Blood, John Carreyrou tells the riveting story of the biggest corporate fraud since Enron, a tale of ambition and hubris set amid the bold promises of Silicon Valley.

There was just one problem: the technology didn’t work.

Backed by investors such as Larry Ellison and Tim Draper, Theranos sold shares in a fundraising round that valued the company at more than $9 billion, putting Holmes’s worth at an estimated $4.7 billion. In 2014, Theranos founder and CEO Elizabeth Holmes was widely seen as the female Steve Jobs: a brilliant Stanford dropout whose startup ‘unicorn’ promised to revolutionize the medical industry with a machine that would make blood testing significantly faster and easier. The riveting true story of the breathtaking rise and shocking collapse of Theranos, the multibillion-dollar biotech startup founded by Elizabeth Holmes, by the prize-winning journalist who first broke the story and pursued it to the end, despite pressure from its charismatic CEO and threats by her lawyers. Winner of the Financial Times/McKinsey Business Book of the Year Award 2018

the perfect book to read by the fire this winter.’ Bill Gates Now with a new afterword covering the months-long landmark trials of Elizabeth Holmes and Sunny Balwani.

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