Bad blood in Silicon Valley
Business Daily
BBC
4.4 • 816 Ratings
🗓️ 25 February 2019
⏱️ 19 minutes
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Summary
The story of Theranos, a company that falsely claimed it could perform a full range of medical tests using just a tiny blood sample drawn by pricking your finger. Manuela Saragosa speaks to John Carreyrou, an investigative reporter with the Wall Street Journal and author of a book on the case, Bad Blood. Plus Silicon Valley venture capitalist Hemant Taneja explains why investors need to be more cautious.
(Photo: Blood samples, Credit: Getty Images)
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| 0:00.0 | Hi, I'm Linda, and I'm Mercy. |
| 0:01.8 | Don't worry, you haven't downloaded the wrong podcast. |
| 0:04.1 | We're here to tell you about our new podcast. |
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| 0:19.9 | That's Parentland, a brand new podcast from the BBC World Service. |
| 0:23.5 | And we'll be back at the end of this podcast to tell you a bit more about it. |
| 0:28.5 | Hello and welcome to Business Daily from the BBC. |
| 0:32.1 | I'm Manuel de Saragossa. |
| 0:33.7 | In this edition, that time Silicon Valley got it very badly wrong. |
| 0:38.2 | In the realm of computers and computer software, you can put out a smartphone app that's still buggy, but you can't do that with a medical product. |
| 0:46.8 | We ask whether some sectors should be closed to the move, fast, and break things mentality of the American tech industry. |
| 0:54.2 | Today, a lot of what entrepreneurs build are rewriting major parts of societies. |
| 0:59.1 | And having this same mindset of how we touch those customers is not really appropriate. |
| 1:04.5 | That's coming up here in Business Daily from the BBC. |
| 1:11.3 | Silicon Valley in California is the land where tech dreams come true. |
| 1:16.2 | And a reigning belief there is that every problem humans have ever encountered can be |
| 1:20.9 | solved with a bit of software, hardware or even an app. |
| 1:24.5 | Ten years ago, Elizabeth Holmes, a 19-year-old Stanford University dropout was part of |
| 1:29.5 | that scene. Along with her partner, she set up Theranos, a company that claimed it could perform |
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