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Can you recommend movies like The Social Network?

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I really enjoy Aaron Sorkin's The Social Network. Every time I watch it, I get the idea to make a cool app. So, do you have any similar movie recommendations?

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I really liked The Founder about Roy Kroc and McDonalds. Currently on Netflix

Very similar themes and story. Not about an “app” but how McDonalds works is about food preparation innovation and the tech/process behind it. And like The Social Network a lot of people are left in Krocs dust.

Middle Men, perhaps. A story about two guys who built a payment provider for porn companies who then took all their customers' money and ran.

So dont take 3% forever (for a company probably valued at 33x or 100% if you like), take 100% now for a zero value company and criminal charges.

Thank you very much everyone. I saved it to my watchlist and watched some of it.

Blackberry

Micro Men. British film about the beginnings of Spectrum and Acorn.

Nowhere near the same quality and actually (mini)series but:

- Halt and Catch Fire (actually pretty good quality and full series)

- The Playlist (creation of Spotify)

- The Dropout (creation of Theranos... do not get advice from this one though)

- WeCrashed (about WeWork, haven't seen this one though)

- Silicon Valley (silly comedy but might work)

Also some TV/movies/docs you might find in YouTube:

- Pirates of Silicon Valley (movie about bill gates and steve jobs)

- Project Code Rush (about the beginning of Mozilla)

- Aardvark'd: 12 weeks with geeks (doc about a startup by Joel Spolsky of StackOverflow fame).

Oh and also those two Steve Job movies that came out side by side.

There is a treasure here, I will add to list.

Here's a few:

Brainstorm - shows the progression of developing technology (in this case a device that can record and playback a subjects' experiences.)

Real Genius - College antics with a bunch of kids developing a stronger laser

Silicon Valley - mini series again about silicon valley culture/developing new tech - also how ideas are discovered and others stumble upon similar, etc.

American Experience: Silicon Valley - documentary of early silicon valley and the people who started the companies

Sneakers

Looks like a good movie. Thanks.

It is. its old but it still holds up

Hackers is good too but a little cheesy and then there's The Net which is decent.

Shh! Too many secrets!

Seatech Astronomy

I haven’t watched either in a long time, so I can’t remember the vibe, but Pirates of Silicon Valley.

Jobs

General Magic (movie)

Halt and Catch Fire (series)

Silicon Valley (series)

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