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Channels with Peter Kafka

Alex Gibney, director of HBO's Theranos documentary "The Inventor"

Channels with Peter Kafka

Vox Media Podcast Network

Business News, News, Tv & Film, Technology

4.4585 Ratings

🗓️ 14 March 2019

⏱️ 36 minutes

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Summary

Documentary director Alex Gibney talks with Recode's Peter Kafka about The Inventor: Out For Blood In Silicon Valley, a new film about the fall of Theranos and its CEO Elizabeth Holmes. In this episode: Why making the documentary wasn't as straightforward as you might think; John Carreyrou and the other journalists in the documentary; the outsized power of corporations; the prevalence of fraud and the "fake it til you make it" mentality; how Holmes and her deputies shaped Theranos' public image; how Gibney assembles a documentary; Richard Plepler's departure from HBO; Holmes' motivations and the psychology of lying; and Gibney's next documentaries. Thanks to Microsoft Azure for sponsoring this episode. Get started with a free account and 12 months of popular free services at Azure.com/trial today. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit podcastchoices.com/adchoices

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This is Peter Cofka.

1:36.3

I am here with Alex Gibney.

1:37.4

One of my favorite documentary filmmakers, one of my favorite people to interview.

1:40.7

This is, I think, the second time I've talked to you at South By.

1:42.6

I'm the second podcast with you.

1:44.6

We're here today because you've got a new HBO documentary, which is great. It's called The Inventor Out for Blood in Silicon Valley. It's the story of Elizabeth Holmes and Theranos. You should go see it. We should just stream it or watch it on TV at your house. Welcome, Alex. Thanks, Peter. We were talking before we started taping and you said you have to do multiple projects

2:02.6

at once because sometimes a project gets stopped because something breaks and that happened

2:06.9

here with this documentary.

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