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The Social Network · written by Aaron Sorkin · 2010
Scene 61 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.
In the freezing quad, Mark pitches Eduardo on a site that puts Harvard's whole social experience online, built around people you already know.
In deposition, Eduardo confirms the site's founding principle: exclusivity.
Mark tells Eduardo the site works like getting punched into a final club, with the two of them as president.
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EDUARDO
I told him I thought it sounded great. It
was a great idea. There was nothing to
hack, people were going to provide their
own pictures, their own information. And
people had the ability to invite--or not
invite--their friends to join. See, in a
world where social structure was
everything, that was the thing.
(beat)
It was a big project and he was going to
have to write tens of thousands of lines
of code so I wondered why he was coming
to me and not his roommates. Dustin
Moskovitz and Chris Hughes they were
programmers.
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