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The Social Network · written by Aaron Sorkin · 2010
Scene 55 of 189 · ≈ 1 min on screen
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.
Cameron, Tyler, and Divya recruit Mark to build HarvardConnection — the idea that becomes Facebook arrives from outside him.
Gretchen asks Eduardo when Mark first came to him with the Facebook idea, and Eduardo says he doesn't understand the question.
Gage asks Mark whether he remembers answering the Winklevosses in the affirmative.
Gretchen asks Eduardo when Mark pitched him on the Facebook idea; Eduardo notes it was still called TheFacebook then.
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GAGE
This doesn’t need to be that difficult.
MARK
I’m currently in the middle of two
different lawsuits.
GAGE
Did you answer affirmatively? When Tyler
and Cameron Winklevoss and Divya Narendra
asked you to build HarvardConnection, did
you say yes?
MARK
I said I’d help.
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