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The Enron Scandal: How the Biggest Corporate Fraud in History Actually Worked

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For six consecutive years Fortune magazine named Enron America’s Most Innovative Company. Its stock price soared. Its executives were celebrated as visionaries. Its revenue appeared to reach $111 billion. Then in October 2001 the whole thing collapsed in sixteen days, taking 20,000 jobs, $74 billion in shareholder value, and the life savings of thousands of employees with it. Here is exactly how one of the most sophisticated frauds in corporate history actually worked.

Theranos Explained: How Elizabeth Holmes Fooled Silicon Valley, Patients, and the World

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Elizabeth Holmes dropped out of Stanford at 19, promised to revolutionise medicine with a single drop of blood, and built a $9 billion company on it. Investors poured in hundreds of millions. Patients trusted their health to the results. Almost none of the technology actually worked. Here is the full story of the most spectacular fraud in Silicon Valley history.

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