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The Social Network · written by Aaron Sorkin · 2010
Scene 170 of 189 · ≈ 1 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.
Peter Thiel commits a $500,000 angel investment and Maurice outlines a corporate restructuring, before Thiel asks pointedly who Eduardo Saverin is.
Eduardo's girlfriend Christy shows up unannounced at his cramped New York sublet, confronting him over his 'single' Facebook status and unanswered texts.
On the phone with Eduardo, Mark furiously accuses him of jeopardizing the company by freezing the account, unaware Christy is setting his gift on fire behind Eduardo's back — until Mark reveals Thiel's investment and calls Eduardo back in.
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A glass conference room in the corner of a glass bullpen on a high floor of a high rise.
Cartons are being unpacked, computers are everywhere along with bags of potato chips and boxes of cereal.
In the conference room, EDUARDO is sitting with three LAWYERS at a round, glass table and documents have been put out in front of him.
We can see through the glass that MARK is working at a computer nearby. SEAN is also hovering in the background.
LAWYER
Four documents. The first two are common
stock purchase agreements allowing you to
buy stock in the newly re-incorporated
Facebook as opposed to the old shares
which are now worthless. The third is the
exchange agreement, allowing you to
exchange the old shares for new shares
and then finally a voter holding
agreement.
EDUARDO
How many shares of stock will I own?
LAWYER
1,328,334.
EDUARDO
Jesus Christ.
LAWYER
That represents a 34.4% ownership share.
Why the increase from the original 30%?
EDUARDO
Because you may need to dilute it to
award shares to new investors.
LAWYER
I like working with business majors.
EDUARDO
Economics.
LAWYER #2
You should know that Mark’s already taken
his percentage from 60 down to 51.
EDUARDO
Mark doesn’t care about money and he
needs to be protected.
LAWYER
Dustin Moskovitz owns 6.81%, Sean Parker
6.47%--
EDUARDO
I can live with that.
LAWYER
And Peter Theil 7%. Would you like to use
my pen?
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