Bad Blood
- ISBN-10
- 1724898728
- ISBN-13
- 9781724898722
- Series
- Bad Blood
- Pages
- 168
- Language
- English
- Published
- 2018-08-07
- Author
- John C.
Description
Tim Kemp had good news for his team.The former IBM executive was in charge of bioinformatics at Theranos, a startup with a cutting-edge blood-testing system. The company had just completed its first big live demonstration for a pharmaceutical company. Elizabeth Holmes, Theranos's twenty-two-year-old founder, had flown to Switzerland and shown off the system's capabilities to executives at Novartis, the European drug giant.Elizabeth called me this morning, Kemp wrote in an email to his fifteen-person team. She expressed her thanks and said that, it was perfect!' She specifically asked me to thank you and let you all know her appreciation. She additionally mentioned that Novartis was so impressed that they have asked for a proposal and have expressed interest in a financial arrangement for a project. We did what we came to do!...
