Still Watching: The Downfall of Startups: Episode 6

Still Watching

Vanity Fair

Arts

4.2 • 1.6K Ratings

🗓️ 8 April 2022

⏱️ 71 minutes

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This week, Richard is joined by Vanity Fair's HWD editor Julie Miller to discuss The Dropout's (maybe) final episode "Lizzy," the newest WeCrashed episode "Fortitude," and the newest Super Pumped: The Battle for Uber's episode "Delete Uber." Richard interviews the star of The Dropout, Amanda Seyfried about becoming Elizabeth Holmes for the miniseries. This season Still Watching will be breaking down three shows that look at the recent past of technology companies: WeCrashed (covering the fall of WeWork) on Apple TV+, The Dropout (chronicling the fall of Theranos) on HBO, and Super Pumped: The Battle For Uber on Showtime. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit podcastchoices.com/adchoices

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0:34.8	The world works in certain ways until a new great idea comes along and changes everything.
0:40.8	We need a name.
0:42.8	We, we live.
0:43.8	We dream.
0:44.8	We work.
0:45.8	I'm Travis Kalinick, and I will never back down from a fight, and no one wants to believe
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1:02.0	Hello, and welcome back to still watching Downfall of the Start-ups.
1:05.2	I'm Vanity Fair, Chief Critic Richard Lawson.
1:07.6	I'm here today with Vanity Fair Hollywood Editor, Hillary Bussis, Hello Hillary.
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