About Garage Gang

Join us for our monthly Men's book discussion. We socialize starting at 7 and begin the book discussion promptly at 7:30. To participate, we require you to have read at least 50% of the book we're discussing and to try to attend at least half the meetings for the year. This facilitates our discussions by building trust and establishing a common vocabulary from the things we've read together before.

This Month

Bad Blood – John Carreyrou
352 pages; 11:37 audiobook

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

“The story is even crazier than I expected…” – Bill Gates