The Social Network
David Fincher's film about the creation of Facebook. It explores student entrepreneurship, intellectual property and the social impact of social networks.
What you get out of it
Understand how a startup gets built and the legal stakes of innovation
You don't connect two billion friends without losing a few along the way.
Why I recommend it
Fincher films the birth of Facebook as a settling of scores: Aaron Sorkin's razor-sharp dialogue, ambition, betrayals, and an open question about what gets lost when you "connect the world".
Historically questionable in places, dramatically perfect. It is the best way into startup mythology: brilliant, unbearable founders, diluted shares, friendships that don't survive the cap table.
Classic. Three Oscars in 2011, including Best Adapted Screenplay for Aaron Sorkin: it has become the reference film on startup culture.
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