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The Social Network · written by Aaron Sorkin · 2010
Scene 172 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.
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.
Eduardo signs re-incorporation paperwork at the new Facebook office, discovering his ownership stake actually rose to 34.4% while Mark's dropped, and Christy sets his gift on fire.
In deposition, a devastated Eduardo recalls that he trusted the paperwork's lawyers as his own and that his father still won't look at him.
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MARK
But you gotta come back. Somewhere around
the end of November/early December. Peter
wants to throw us an amazing party when
we hit a million members, it’s gonna be
out of control. You’ve gotta come back
for it.
EDUARDO
(quietly can’t believe it)
A million members.
MARK
Yeah.
EDUARDO
Remember the algorithm on the window at
Kirkland?
MARK
Yeah.
EDUARDO
Yeah, I’ll be here.
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