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The Social Network · written by Aaron Sorkin · 2010
Scene 72 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 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.
Gage reads into the record an e-mail from Mark to Tyler promising to discuss HarvardConnection after finishing basic functionality the next night.
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The whiteboard is filled with diagrams now--login page, profile page, create account...We move over to see MARK at his computer. He opens the Emacs program and then Firefox, hits a few keys and the diagram on the whiteboard comes to life on his computer as we
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