Product: Startup.Com (2001)
Rating: 3.0
Mediocre At Best
In my E-commerce/Business 101 class, our instructor introduced this DVD movie in one class, and it took us two classes to watch it. As I was watching this documentary and taking my notes, I was contemplating on what kind of review I would give this movie. To me, it gets 3 out of 5 stars, and I'm being a tad bit generous. The movie focused too much on the two CEO's of the company, and not the actual company itself. Kaleil and Tom (especially Kaleil) was focused on by the camera throughout the whole movie, and I got the sense that the whole time it was just Kaleil trying to figure out how to make his money and keep it. I was more interested in the site govworks.com itself and what was on it. Kaleil's relationship with his co-workers was focused on greatly. The good thing about this is that it does a good overview of how people act in the business world, and how life is in the internet universe. This documentary is more of a biography on Kaleil and Tom, and how their lives played out. I was looking forward to seeing the bulk and the detail of the company and how it rose and fell. I was not interested on seeing if Tom could spend time with his daughter all that much. It is a great overview on life in business and how you are affected, but I wanted the movie to focus on the company itself more, and who are the influential players besides Kaleil and Tom, the two CEOs....