Product: Startup.Com (2001)
Rating: 4.0
How the old new economy failed
How could so many companies capitalizing on what is undoubtedly the most amazing media innovation since the television fall so far so fast? Startup.com offers some important clues.Skilfully, the filmakers show us how the protagonists labor to secure tens of millions in financing, and how they use this to build a company with over two hundred employees. Repeatedly, I found myself thinking: "All this, just for a website?" Lone individuals have certainly built much greater things given enough nights hacking away at a laptop (Shawn Fanning and Napster comes to mind). And the really amazing thing is that Tom and Kaleil don't even have a website, or a secure (much less growing) client base by the time they have invested these millions. Could this unproven, top-heavy model be a reason why the Internet economy seemed to fail, even though there's no reason it can't be a success?