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Re: Can you recommend movies like The Social Network?

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Post by bjourne » Sat, Aug 23, 2025, 10:38 PM UTC

Middle Men, perhaps. A story about two guys who built a payment provider for porn companies who then took all their customers' money and ran.

Re: Can you recommend movies like The Social Network?

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Post by dysoco » Sat, Aug 23, 2025, 11:21 PM UTC

Nowhere near the same quality and actually (mini)series but:

- Halt and Catch Fire (actually pretty good quality and full series)

- The Playlist (creation of Spotify)

- The Dropout (creation of Theranos... do not get advice from this one though)

- WeCrashed (about WeWork, haven't seen this one though)

- Silicon Valley (silly comedy but might work)

Also some TV/movies/docs you might find in YouTube:

- Pirates of Silicon Valley (movie about bill gates and steve jobs)

- Project Code Rush (about the beginning of Mozilla)

- Aardvark'd: 12 weeks with geeks (doc about a startup by Joel Spolsky of StackOverflow fame).

Oh and also those two Steve Job movies that came out side by side.

Re: Can you recommend movies like The Social Network?

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Post by 0xCE0 » Sun, Aug 24, 2025, 9:37 AM UTC

General Magic (movie)

Halt and Catch Fire (series)

Silicon Valley (series)

Re: Can you recommend movies like The Social Network?

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Post by fuckaj » Sun, Aug 24, 2025, 9:38 AM UTC

bjourne wrote: post #11

Middle Men, perhaps. A story about two guys who built a payment provider for porn companies who then took all their customers' money and ran.

So dont take 3% forever (for a company probably valued at 33x or 100% if you like), take 100% now for a zero value company and criminal charges.

Re: Can you recommend movies like The Social Network?

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Post by drrob » Sun, Aug 24, 2025, 1:38 PM UTC

Micro Men. British film about the beginnings of Spectrum and Acorn.

Re: Can you recommend movies like The Social Network?

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Post by youvcode » Tue, Aug 26, 2025, 3:57 AM UTC

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Re: Can you recommend movies like The Social Network?

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Post by cranberryturkey » Tue, Aug 26, 2025, 8:52 AM UTC

_v9nk wrote: post #3

cranberryturkey wrote: post #2

Sneakers

Looks like a good movie. Thanks.

It is. its old but it still holds up

Re: Can you recommend movies like The Social Network?

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Post by cranberryturkey » Tue, Aug 26, 2025, 8:55 AM UTC

_v9nk wrote: post #3

cranberryturkey wrote: post #2

Sneakers

Looks like a good movie. Thanks.

Hackers is good too but a little cheesy and then there's The Net which is decent.

Re: Can you recommend movies like The Social Network?

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Post by _v9nk » Sat, Aug 30, 2025, 8:27 AM UTC

Thank you very much everyone. I saved it to my watchlist and watched some of it.

Re: Can you recommend movies like The Social Network?

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Post by _v9nk » Sat, Aug 30, 2025, 8:28 AM UTC

dysoco wrote: post #12

Nowhere near the same quality and actually (mini)series but: - Halt and Catch Fire (actually pretty good quality and full series) - The Playlist (creation of Spotify) - The Dropout (creation of Theranos... do not get advice from this one though) - WeCrashed (about WeWork, haven't seen this one though) - Silicon Valley (silly comedy but might work) Also some TV/movies/docs you might find in YouTube: - Pirates of Silic…

There is a treasure here, I will add to list.