Mark Zuckerberg wants status and belonging Harvard's final clubs won't give him, so he builds a website that gives the world both — and loses his best friend and co-founder to the company he built to prove he mattered.

1. Scene 1

   Mark at the campus bar: brilliant, status-obsessed, unable to read the room he's sitting in.

2. Scenes 1–49

   He wants to matter — to be let into the final clubs, to be exceptional enough that Erica's verdict is wrong — and Facemash is the first proof-of-concept.

3. Scenes 50–92

   He takes the Winklevoss pitch as a springboard, builds theFacebook in its place, and launches it into a world he can't control.

4. Scene 120

   Sean Parker enters at the 66 dinner and becomes the relationship — equal parts mentor and corrupter — that carries the story's real theme about loyalty and ambition.

5. Scene 133

   The dinner at 66 with Sean Parker — "a billion dollars, that's cool" — reframes the company's ambition and pulls Mark irreversibly toward Sean's orbit.

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7. Scene 139

   Back in the dorm, Mark confronts Eduardo about a damaging Crimson article referencing a live chicken tied to his Phoenix pledge duties.

8. Scene 140

   Eduardo explains in deposition that carrying and caring for a pledge chicken was part of his Phoenix initiation.

9. Scene 141

   Mark worries the animal-cruelty story, crediting Eduardo as a Facebook founder, will hurt the company's image.

10. Scene 142

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