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The Social Network · written by Aaron Sorkin · 2010
Scene 59 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 approached him with the idea, and Eduardo places it at an Alpha Epsilon Pi Caribbean Night party.
At the lackluster Jewish-fraternity Caribbean party, Eduardo reveals he's been punched by the Phoenix before Mark pulls him outside to pitch a new idea.
In the freezing quad, Mark pitches Eduardo on a site that puts Harvard's whole social experience online, built around people you already know.
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EDUARDO
“It would be exclusive”.
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