6 Best technology books like For Blood and Money: Billionaires, Biotech, and the Quest for a Blockbuster Drug by Nathan Vardi

Cover of For Blood and Money: Billionaires, Biotech, and the Quest for a Blockbuster Drug by Nathan Vardi

For Blood and Money: Billionaires, Biotech, and the Quest for a Blockbuster Drug

By: Nathan Vardi

4.30

Format: 288 pages, Hardcover

A gripping business narrative and scientific thriller about what it takes to bring a wonder drug to…

If you liked the technology plot in For Blood and Money: Billionaires, Biotech, and the Quest for a Blockbuster Drug by Nathan Vardi , here is a list of 6 books like this:

Cover of The Billion Dollar Molecule: One Company's Quest for the Perfect Drug by Barry Werth

1. The Billion Dollar Molecule: One Company's Quest for the Perfect Drug

By: Barry Werth

3.92

Format: 464 pages, Paperback

Join journalist Barry Werth as he pulls back the curtain on Vertex, a start-up pharmaceutical compa… read more

Similar categories in Barry Werth's The Billion Dollar Molecule: One Company's Quest for the Perfect Drug book and Nathan Vardi's For Blood and Money: Billionaires, Biotech, and the Quest for a Blockbuster Drug

  • science
  • health
  • biology
  • medicine
  • nonfiction
  • business
  • technology
Cover of The Drug Hunters: The Improbable Quest to Discover New Medicines by Ogi Ogas, Donald R. Kirsch

2. The Drug Hunters: The Improbable Quest to Discover New Medicines

By: Ogi Ogas , Donald R. Kirsch

3.58

Format: 24 pages,

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Similar categories in Ogi Ogas's The Drug Hunters: The Improbable Quest to Discover New Medicines book and Nathan Vardi's For Blood and Money: Billionaires, Biotech, and the Quest for a Blockbuster Drug

  • history
  • medical
  • biology
  • medicine
  • nonfiction
  • science
Cover of The Antidote: A Small Competitor Challenges the Drug Giants: Conquests in New Pharma by Barry Werth

3. The Antidote: A Small Competitor Challenges the Drug Giants: Conquests in New Pharma

By: Barry Werth

3.81

Format: 215 pages, Hardcover

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  • medicine
  • nonfiction
  • business
  • science

4. Genentech: The Beginnings of Biotech

By: None

4.50

Format: None pages, Hardcover

In the fall of 1980, Genentech, Inc., a little-known California genetic engineering company, became… read more

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5. Elon Musk

By: Walter Isaacson

4.40

Format: 688 pages, Hardcover

From the author of Steve Jobs and other bestselling biographies, this is the astonishingly intimate… read more

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  • history
  • technology
  • nonfiction
  • business
  • science
"[Musk] concluded that Trump as president was no different than he was as a candidate. The buffoonery was not just an act. "Trump might be one of the world’s best bullshitters ever," he says. "Like my…"

-Walter Isaacson, Elon Musk

Cover of Chip War: The Fight for the World's Most Critical Technology by Chris   Miller

6. Chip War: The Fight for the World's Most Critical Technology

By: Chris Miller

4.44

Format: 464 pages, Hardcover

An epic account of the decades-long battle to control what has emerged as the world's most critical… read more

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  • science
  • history
  • politics
  • nonfiction
  • business
  • technology
"Comrade, we have built the world’s biggest microprocessor!"

-Chris Miller, Chip War: The Fight for the World's Most Critical Technology

Cover of Bottle of Lies: The Inside Story of the Generic Drug Boom by Katherine Eban

7. Bottle of Lies: The Inside Story of the Generic Drug Boom

By: Katherine Eban

4.42

Format: 512 pages, ebook

Many have hailed the widespread use of generic drugs as one of the most important public-health dev… read more

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  • health
  • medical
  • politics
  • medicine
  • nonfiction
  • business
  • science
Cover of The Song of the Cell: An Exploration of Medicine and the New Human by Siddhartha Mukherjee

8. The Song of the Cell: An Exploration of Medicine and the New Human

By: Siddhartha Mukherjee

4.28

Format: 473 pages, Hardcover

Winner of the 2023 PROSE Award for Excellence in Biological and Life Sciences and the 2023 Chautauq… read more

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  • history
  • health
  • medical
  • biology
  • medicine
  • nonfiction
  • science
Cover of Plunder: Private Equity's Plan to Pillage America by Brendan Ballou

9. Plunder: Private Equity's Plan to Pillage America

By: Brendan Ballou

4.08

Format: 368 pages, Hardcover

The authoritative exposé of private what it is, how it kills businesses and jobs, how the governme… read more

Similar categories in Brendan Ballou's Plunder: Private Equity's Plan to Pillage America book and Nathan Vardi's For Blood and Money: Billionaires, Biotech, and the Quest for a Blockbuster Drug

  • politics
  • history
  • nonfiction
  • business
Cover of Going Infinite: The Rise and Fall of a New Tycoon by Michael   Lewis

10. Going Infinite: The Rise and Fall of a New Tycoon

By: Michael Lewis

3.80

Format: 272 pages, Hardcover

From the #1 best-selling author of The Big Short and Flash Boys, the story of FTX’s spectacular col… read more

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  • nonfiction
  • history
  • business
  • technology
Cover of The Fund: Ray Dalio, Bridgewater Associates, and the Unraveling of a Wall Street Legend by Rob Copeland

11. The Fund: Ray Dalio, Bridgewater Associates, and the Unraveling of a Wall Street Legend

By: Rob Copeland

4.04

Format: 352 pages, Hardcover

The unauthorized, unvarnished story of famed Wall Street hedge-fund manager Ray Dalio. Ray Dalio… read more

Similar categories in Rob Copeland's The Fund: Ray Dalio, Bridgewater Associates, and the Unraveling of a Wall Street Legend book and Nathan Vardi's For Blood and Money: Billionaires, Biotech, and the Quest for a Blockbuster Drug

  • nonfiction
  • history
  • business
Cover of For Blood and Money: Billionaires, Biotech, and the Quest for a Blockbuster Drug by Nathan Vardi

12. For Blood and Money: Billionaires, Biotech, and the Quest for a Blockbuster Drug

By: Nathan Vardi

4.30

Format: 288 pages, Hardcover

A gripping business narrative and scientific thriller about what it takes to bring a wonder drug to… read more

Similar categories in Nathan Vardi's For Blood and Money: Billionaires, Biotech, and the Quest for a Blockbuster Drug book and Nathan Vardi's For Blood and Money: Billionaires, Biotech, and the Quest for a Blockbuster Drug

  • science
  • history
  • health
  • medical
  • politics
  • biology
  • medicine
  • nonfiction
  • business
  • technology
Cover of The Breakthrough: Immunotherapy and the Race to Cure Cancer by Charles Graeber

13. The Breakthrough: Immunotherapy and the Race to Cure Cancer

By: Charles Graeber

4.28

Format: 320 pages, Hardcover

From the New York Times bestselling author of The Good Nurse comes an empowering and accessible sto… read more

Similar categories in Charles Graeber's The Breakthrough: Immunotherapy and the Race to Cure Cancer book and Nathan Vardi's For Blood and Money: Billionaires, Biotech, and the Quest for a Blockbuster Drug

  • health
  • medical
  • biology
  • medicine
  • nonfiction
  • science
Cover of Building Backwards to Biotech: The Power of Entrepreneurship to Drive Cutting-Edge Science to Market by Stephanie A. Wisner

14. Building Backwards to Biotech: The Power of Entrepreneurship to Drive Cutting-Edge Science to Market

By: Stephanie A. Wisner

4.36

Format: 343 pages, Kindle Edition

Ever wonder how medicines and vaccines enter the marketplace? Why they are so expensive? Most peopl… read more

Similar categories in Stephanie A. Wisner's Building Backwards to Biotech: The Power of Entrepreneurship to Drive Cutting-Edge Science to Market book and Nathan Vardi's For Blood and Money: Billionaires, Biotech, and the Quest for a Blockbuster Drug

  • business
  • science
Cover of Breaking Through: My Life in Science by Katalin Karikó

15. Breaking Through: My Life in Science

By: Katalin Karikó

4.67

Format: 336 pages, Hardcover

A story of perseverance and the power of convictions from the groundbreaking immigrant scientist wh… read more

Similar categories in Katalin Karikó's Breaking Through: My Life in Science book and Nathan Vardi's For Blood and Money: Billionaires, Biotech, and the Quest for a Blockbuster Drug

  • biology
  • medicine
  • nonfiction
  • science
Cover of Ten Drugs: How Plants, Powders, and Pills Have Shaped the History of Medicine by Thomas Hager

16. Ten Drugs: How Plants, Powders, and Pills Have Shaped the History of Medicine

By: Thomas Hager

4.18

Format: 304 pages, Hardcover

Behind every landmark drug is a story. It could be an oddball researcher’s genius insight, a cataly… read more

Similar categories in Thomas Hager's Ten Drugs: How Plants, Powders, and Pills Have Shaped the History of Medicine book and Nathan Vardi's For Blood and Money: Billionaires, Biotech, and the Quest for a Blockbuster Drug

  • history
  • health
  • medical
  • biology
  • medicine
  • nonfiction
  • business
  • science
Cover of The Great American Drug Deal: A New Prescription for Innovative and Affordable Medicines by Peter Kolchinsky

17. The Great American Drug Deal: A New Prescription for Innovative and Affordable Medicines

By: Peter Kolchinsky

4.09

Format: 268 pages, Kindle Edition

Developing life-changing drugs is risky and expensive—but that’s not what makes them unaffordable. … read more

Similar categories in Peter Kolchinsky's The Great American Drug Deal: A New Prescription for Innovative and Affordable Medicines book and Nathan Vardi's For Blood and Money: Billionaires, Biotech, and the Quest for a Blockbuster Drug

  • nonfiction
  • business
  • science
Cover of Hangry: A Startup Journey by Mike           Evans

18. Hangry: A Startup Journey

By: Mike Evans

4.32

Format: 272 pages, Hardcover

Nautilus Book Awards' Better Books for a Better World | Axiom Business Book Award Winner GrubHub f… read more

Similar categories in Mike Evans's Hangry: A Startup Journey book and Nathan Vardi's For Blood and Money: Billionaires, Biotech, and the Quest for a Blockbuster Drug

  • nonfiction
  • history
  • business
  • technology
Cover of Other Rivers: A Chinese Education by Peter Hessler

19. Other Rivers: A Chinese Education

By: Peter Hessler

4.56

Format: 464 pages, Hardcover

An intimate and revelatory eyewitness account of two generations of students in China’s heartland, … read more

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  • nonfiction
  • history
Cover of The Messenger: Moderna, the Vaccine, and the Business Gamble That Changed the World by Peter  Loftus

20. The Messenger: Moderna, the Vaccine, and the Business Gamble That Changed the World

By: Peter Loftus

4.09

Format: 272 pages, Hardcover

At the start of 2020, Moderna was a waning biotech unicorn, still years away from delivering its fi… read more

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  • health
  • medicine
  • nonfiction
  • business
  • science
Cover of Drugs and the FDA: Safety, Efficacy, and the Public's Trust by Mikkael A Sekeres

21. Drugs and the FDA: Safety, Efficacy, and the Public's Trust

By: Mikkael A Sekeres

4.27

Format: 320 pages, Hardcover

How the FDA was shaped by public health crises and patient advocacy, told against a background of t… read more

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  • medicine
  • nonfiction
  • science
  • health

8 Top health books like For Blood and Money: Billionaires, Biotech, and the Quest for a Blockbuster Drug by Nathan Vardi

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The Billion Dollar Molecule: One Company's Quest for the Perfect Drug

Barry Werth

3.92

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Bottle of Lies: The Inside Story of the Generic Drug Boom

Katherine Eban

4.42

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The Song of the Cell: An Exploration of Medicine and the New Human

Siddhartha Mukherjee

4.28

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For Blood and Money: Billionaires, Biotech, and the Quest for a Blockbuster Drug

Nathan Vardi

4.30

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Same as Ever: A Guide to What Never Changes

Morgan Housel

4.19

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Number Go Up: Inside Crypto's Wild Rise and Staggering Fall

Zeke Faux

4.26

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Going Infinite: The Rise and Fall of a New Tycoon

Michael Lewis

3.80

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Gary Stevenson

4.26

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