Ali gives away a copy of John Carreyrou's Bad Blood with a message from him to a viewer picked at random from the comments (2019)
ask · status: reported back · last event: result reported (2019-07-02) · owner: Ali
About: Bad Blood
| date | event | what | video |
|---|---|---|---|
| 2019-05-31 | asked | Ali gives away his copy of Bad Blood: viewers comment anything below, and in next month's (June 2019) Monthly Favourites video he will pick a winner at random and mail them the book with a little message from him at the front. | Monthly Favourites #9 - Ali Abdaal 00:01:50 |
| 2019-07-02 | result reported | Ali names the viewer TheRealJasonKO, an aspiring physician from Canada, as the winner of the copy of Bad Blood from last month's (June 2019) video, and asks them to email him their address. → refers to Monthly Favourites #9 - Ali Abdaal | Monthly Favourites #10 - Ali Abdaal 00:02:04 |
What is said about it
6 statements, by date (the events above are the turns of the thread; these are the details).
- 2019-05-31 · Monthly Favourites #9 - Ali Abdaal — recommendation: Ali calls John Carreyrou's book Bad Blood absolutely amazing. — 00:00:21
- 2019-05-31 · Monthly Favourites #9 - Ali Abdaal — Ali: Bad Blood, subtitled "Secrets and Lies in a Silicon Valley Startup", tells the story of Theranos, a startup that aimed to revolutionise blood testing and claimed its small home boxes could run hundreds of blood tests on a finger-prick sample. — 00:00:21
- 2019-05-31 · Monthly Favourites #9 - Ali Abdaal — Ali: Over about ten years Theranos defrauded investors of billions of dollars because its technology did not quite work and it was, more or less, selling a lie; Bad Blood tells that story and how the company was eventually found out. — 00:00:21
- 2019-05-31 · Monthly Favourites #9 - Ali Abdaal — Ali rarely reads nonfiction outside self-help and entrepreneurship, but tried Bad Blood after people recommended it, among them Bill Gates, who said he could not put the thriller down, and is glad he did. — 00:00:51
- 2019-05-31 · Monthly Favourites #9 - Ali Abdaal — Ali says Bad Blood does not feel like a nonfiction book, which he thinks of as boring or factual: it could have been a fictional thriller and been just as entertaining. — 00:01:20
- 2019-05-31 · Monthly Favourites #9 - Ali Abdaal — recommendation: Ali says anyone at all interested in a thriller about Silicon Valley startups and billionaires should definitely get Bad Blood. — 00:01:20