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.

1. Scene 1

   Mark at the campus bar: brilliant, status-obsessed, unable to read the room he's sitting in.

2. Scenes 1–49

   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.

3. Scene 50

   Cameron, Tyler, and Divya recruit Mark to build HarvardConnection — the idea that becomes Facebook arrives from outside him.

4. Just before
5. Scene 70

   Mark tapes up Friendster and MySpace printouts on a whiteboard and sketches a third site he labels NewCo.

6. Scene 71

   Gage reads into the record an e-mail from Mark to Tyler promising to discuss HarvardConnection after finishing basic functionality the next night.

7. Scene 72

   Mark's whiteboard fills with page diagrams as he starts turning the design into working code.

8. Scene 73

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