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The Social Network · written by Aaron Sorkin · 2010
Scene 71 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.
Eduardo heads off to his Phoenix party, leaving Mark alone with his thoughts.
In deposition, Eduardo testifies that Mark told him he'd looked at HarvardConnection and found it not worth his time.
Mark tapes up Friendster and MySpace printouts on a whiteboard and sketches a third site he labels NewCo.
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GAGE
(reading)
From Mark Zuckerberg to Tyler Winklevoss.
November 30, 2003. “I read over all the
stuff you sent me re Harvard Connection
and it seems like it shouldn’t take too
long to implement, so we can talk about
it after I get all the basic
functionality up tomorrow night.”
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