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The Social Network · written by Aaron Sorkin · 2010
Scene 163 of 189 · ≈ 2 min on screen · Act two
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.
Mark at the campus bar: brilliant, status-obsessed, unable to read the room he's sitting in.
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.
He takes the Winklevoss pitch as a springboard, builds theFacebook in its place, and launches it into a world he can't control.
Expansion to Yale, Columbia, Stanford; the move to Palo Alto; the costs mount — Eduardo sidelined, the twins circling, the company outgrowing its dorm-room shape.
In the increasingly trashed Palo Alto house, Sean works the phone plotting revenge on Case Equity while interns code through a thunderstorm, and someone knocks unheeded at the door.
Eduardo stands soaked at the front door of the Palo Alto house after a taxi drops him off, knocking to be let in.
Sean finally answers the door to a drenched, furious Eduardo, who's been left waiting an hour at the airport, and the two clash over Sean's judgment and the house's underage-looking guests.
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MARK
How’s it going? How’s the internship?
How’s Christy?
EDUARDO
How’s the internship?
MARK
Yeah.
EDUARDO
Mark...Jesus, I quit the internship.
We’ve talked about this on the phone,
were you even--I quit on my first day.
MARK
I do remember you saying that. How’s
Christy?
EDUARDO
Christy’s crazy.
MARK
Is that fun?
EDUARDO
No I mean she’s actually psychotic. She’s
insanely jealous, she’s irrational and
I’m frightened of her.
MARK
Still, it’s nice you have a girlfriend.
EDUARDO
I do not want that guy representing
himself as part of this company.
MARK
You gotta move out here, Wardo, this is
where it’s all happening.
EDUARDO
Did you hear what I just said?
MARK
The connections, the energy--
EDUARDO
Mark--
MARK
I’m afraid if you don’t come out here
you’re going to get left behind. I want--
I want--I need you out here, please don’t
tell him I said that.
EDUARDO
What did you just say?
MARK
It’s moving faster than any of us ever
even imagined and--
EDUARDO
What do you mean get left behind?
MARK
It’s moving fast and Sean even thinks
that--
EDUARDO
Sean is not part of the company.
MARK
We have over 300,000 members, Wardo,
we’re in 160 schools including--
EDUARDO
I’m aware of that.
MARK
--five in Europe.
EDUARDO
I’m aware of that, Mark, I’m the CFO.
MARK
We need more servers than I ever imagined
we’d need. We need more programmers. And
we need more money. And he set up the
Thiel meeting. He’s set up meetings all
around town.
EDUARDO
He’s set up other meetings?
MARK
Yes.
EDUARDO
Without me knowing anything about it?!
MARK
You’re in New York!
EDUARDO
I’m in New York riding subways 14 hours a
day trying to find advertisers!
MARK
And how’s it going so far?!!
EDUARDO
What did you mean get left behind?
EDUARDO looks at MARK for a long moment before we
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