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The Social Network · written by Aaron Sorkin · 2010
Scene 88 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.
Gage notes that 39 days after his first meeting with the twins, Mark still hadn't delivered on HarvardConnection.
Mark registers the domain name theFacebook.com.
Eduardo confirms to Gage that, to his knowledge, Mark had never actually begun work on HarvardConnection.
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CAMERON’s looking at his e-mail.
CAMERON
What in the world is this?
(reading)
“Hey Cameron. I’m still a little
skeptical that we have enough
functionality in the site to really draw
the attention and gain the critical mass
necessary to get a site like this to run.
We’ll speak soon.”
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