That movie is really great -- the title is perfect. I think it's basically a lesson in what not to do. Two non-hackers start a company and skip the make-a-great-product stage completely. Watching them it feels like borderline fraud.
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I bought Spolsky's "Aardvark" documentary and enjoyed it a lot, but I wish it had more YC in it. I wish YC funded two guys to make a documentary about YC. If the guys were good at it maybe they could create a product around that. Maybe something that makes it easy for "normal" people to make documentaries.
Amazingly, Kaleil is now selling business advice at his personal website. http://www.kaleil.com/
Aardvark sounds like an interesting doc -- so far can't find it online though.
Indeed, they had no product... and 233 employees.
awesome! thanks so much
I don't think that this movie is free (as in speech) to distribute. It came out in 2001 and is still being sold by retailers*. On that note, thanks for bringing it to my attention, now I may buy it! (* http://preview.tinyurl.com/2w6tob )
It is free for people to distribute, it's just that you have guilt about it, but feel free to live within your own code.