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The Social Network · written by Aaron Sorkin · 2010
Scene 182 of 189 · ≈ 1 min on screen · First scene of act three
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.
Thiel's angel investment and the re-incorporation give Mark the company he wanted — total control, real money, a real office.
The price is Eduardo: diluted to 0.03% and walked out by security, the cost of the company Mark built is his oldest friendship.
Eduardo confronts Mark about newly issued stock that has diluted his stake, and when Mark won't look up from his computer, smashes his laptop on the desk.
Gretchen walks Eduardo through the dilution numbers on record, revealing every other founder's stake held steady while his alone collapsed to 0.03 percent.
Sean coldly tells Eduardo he's no longer part of Facebook and has security remove him, tossing him a worthless check drawn on the frozen account as Eduardo accuses Mark of planting the chicken story before being escorted out.
This scene
We can hear the thumping music coming from the party inside and college kids have spilled out onto the front lawn of this pristine, four-columned house.