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The Social Network · written by Aaron Sorkin · 2010
Scene 62 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 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.
Eduardo, in deposition, explains why Mark came to him and not his programmer roommates: the idea, not the code, is what excited him.
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MARK
We’re gonna need a little start-up cash
to rent the servers and get it online.
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