Ask HN: Good movies and series about startups?

4 points·kaizenb··12 comments

I've been watching movies and series about startups lately:

- Halt and Catch Fire - The Dropout - General Magic — The Playlist

I keep a list here (it's on ArtConnects, which I work on):

https://artconnects.club/u/bora/lists/movies-and-series-about-startups-9da851ca2982

What am I missing? Documentaries welcome too.

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Code Rush (2000). PBS documentary inside Netscape in the months before it open-sourced Mozilla

BlackBerry (2023). Plays like a comedy for the first half, then turns dark as the company gets big

Great thank you! Both added to the list.

https://artconnects.club/u/bora/lists/movies-and-series-abou...

A bit beyond tech: The Founder (Ray Kroc), Tucker, The Man and his Dreams, Carmen Curlers, MadMen (forming new agency seasons)

The Social Network

Triumph of the Nerds

Added to the list. Thanks!

Startup.com (2001) - documentary about a dot com era startup.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Startup.com

The recent Elizabeth Holmes documentary probably counts.

Thanks!

"You Can See Everything" Added to the list.

ghostbusters

the movie? which year?

To be fair, that really is about a startup, though that's an amusingly oddball way to categorise it, not to mention a niche category of business! Wouldn't have occurred to me to suggest it, but I quite like the thought now someone has. 1984.

I must say it hadn't aged all that well when we saw it fairly recently. Not horrible, just a bit slow paced and not quite as funny as I remembered it being.

The social network: the movie is around early days of facebook WeCrashed: another good watch specially if you are interested in startup culture.

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