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The Social Network · written by Aaron Sorkin · 2010
Scene 176 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.
Sean coaches Mark on how to snub Case Equity's investment pitch as payback for pushing him out of his last company.
Eduardo testifies that Mark's e-mail inviting him back mentioned a revenge stunt on Case Equity and a hard-to-refuse investment offer.
Eduardo arrives at Facebook's flashy new offices dressed for both a party and a business meeting, only to realize via voiceover he was called there for neither.
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GRETCHEN
What were you called out there for?
EDUARDO
An ambush.
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