True Films 3.0 - Kevin Kelly

Startup.com
Boy, did this documentary of a dot-com startup and meltdown resurrect
old memories. It’s been what, six years? Internet stock hysteria was so
inflated that there are few families in America who were not touched
by it in some way. Hundreds of thousands of urban workers had direct
experience in this madness, but little knowledge of how the particulars
worked. This fly-on-the-wall view of the birth and flameout of an Internet
startup is the real thing, and should be prescribed as a catharsis if you
ever owned stock in the last decade. Do you wonder where you pension
money went? Watch this.
By Jehane Noujaim
2001, 103 min.
Available from Amazon
Rent from Netflix
You’ve made it when the media interviews
you on financial TV (above).
But you’re dead meat when you get
the phone call (left) from your investors
backing out.
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