The precariousness of life in a startup isn't for everyone, but that doesn't mean you have to miss out on the excitement.
There's always a film that can bring you up to scratch.
Startups are built on lofty ambitions, and the plot is difficult to resist: ideas taken from small beginnings in a garage to a crummy shared office space and sometimes to a multinational headquarters.
Here are some films, TV shows and documentaries that capture big stories: PC revolutions, moonshots, disrupted industries, genius founders, successful exits, and painful failures
There's always a film that can bring you up to scratch.
Startups are built on lofty ambitions, and the plot is difficult to resist: ideas taken from small beginnings in a garage to a crummy shared office space and sometimes to a multinational headquarters.
Here are some films, TV shows and documentaries that capture big stories: PC revolutions, moonshots, disrupted industries, genius founders, successful exits, and painful failures
The Social Network | 2010
The Social Network, written by Aaron Sorkin, is an engaging film that shows the complex Mark Zuckerberg take Facebook from a sexist algorithm written on a window to the vanguard of the social graph.
Steve Jobs | 2015
Directed by Danny Boyle and written by Aaron Sorkin, Steve Jobs is a memorable portrayal of a larger-than-life character who fathered the Mac, iPod, and iPhone, turned Apple into the most valuable company in the world, came to define the role of the present-day tech CEO, and pioneered now-tired Silicon Valley tropes such as the product release keynote. Starring Michael Fassbender as the title character, the movie both questions and endorses the myth of Steve Jobs and the tech industry's version of revolutionary capitalism.
Silicon Valley | 2014
Mike Judge's Silicon Valley hits a little too close to home. The critically-acclaimed and popular satirical HBO series follows Pied Piper, a startup based on a revolutionary data-compression algorithm, from its infancy in a split-level suburban “incubator“ to a TechCrunch Disrupt brawl to a debutante at the VC ball. With story lines and characters ripped right from the tech blogs, Silicon Valley captures the absurdity of the current startup moment like no other show on television.
The Startup Kids | 2012
The Startup Kids is a documentary with interviews with young tech founders, including the founders of Vimeo, Dropbox, Soundcloud, Debito, and xsmoke.Founders relate the stories of inspiration and drive that allowed them to build creative and impactful businesses at an unusually young age.
Crocodile in the Yangtze | 2012
“I think it's very important to enter the international market. If one day we turn on the computer and everything on it is foreign, then it will be too late and we will regret it,“ said Alibaba founder Jack Ma in 1995. Crocodile in the Yangtze is not just the story of Alibaba, but the story of China's economic revolution, and its impact on the world. The engrossing docu-memoir, narrated by Alibaba former marketing VP Porter Erisman, follows Jack Ma, Alibaba's enigmatic CEO as he takes the company from his apartment to a US IPO of over $25 billion.
Halt and Catch Fire | 2014
The 1980s does not look glamorous in Halt and Catch Fire, a cinematic period drama set in the early, roughand-tumble days of the personal computer. The fictional series uses the biggest technology revolution in history as a backdrop for the small, personal stories of hustlersalesman, engineer, and developer.Central to the series is the drive that leads these brilliant people to take Cardiff Electric, a middling Texas tech company, up against the seemingly unstoppable Big Blue. It's an early version of dial-up services such as Compuserve, Prodigy, and AOL.
e-Dreams | 2001
This documentary follows Kozmo.com, an online store offering rapid delivery of online purchases.Kozmo raised over $250M before collapsing.e-Dreams' relevance has only increased in recent years as another generation of on-demand startups have burned through capital and struggled to attain viable unit economics, even as funding and deals to the category slump.
Pirates of Silicon Valley | 1999
A semi-historical depiction of the famous rivalry between Steve Jobs and Bill Gates, it takes place over three acts. The first covers Jobs' and Wozniak's formative years in early-1970s years in early-1970s UC Berkeley and Gates' and Ballmer's at Harvard. The second act covers the revolutionary development of the PC and the fall of Jobs at Apple in the mid-1980s. Finally, the film shows Jobs' return and an alliance with Gates that was announced in the 90s.
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