Ask HN: Good Documentaries on Startup Failures?

Posted by Apocryphon on Tuesday July 14, 2020 @08:52PM
from the ask-hn dept.

Alex Gibney's The Inventor: Out for Blood is a great movie on Theranos, while General Magic is also solid, about a startup that failed but for very different reasons.

Slidebean's Startup Forensics series is a decent YouTube series on short films about tech startups and larger companies that didn't quite make it- I quite like the look into why Tilt failed:

https://www.youtube.com/channel/UC4bq21IPPbpu0Qrsl7LW0sw

Does anyone have any recommendations?

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Re:Ask HN: Good Documentaries on Startup Failures? by random31415 on Wednesday July 15, 2020 @03:56AM (#23842448)

1. e-dreams - https://www.imdb.com/title/tt0262021/

2. startup.com - https://www.imdb.com/title/tt0256408/

3. Pirates of the silicon valley - https://www.imdb.com/title/tt0168122/

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Re:Ask HN: Good Documentaries on Startup Failures? by runawaybottle on Wednesday July 15, 2020 @06:13PM (#23852867)

I believe #2 is a mockumentary.

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Re:Ask HN: Good Documentaries on Startup Failures? by ryanmccullagh on Thursday July 16, 2020 @12:34AM (#23855800)

#2 is a true story. GovWorks was a real startup.

After the company failed, the cofounder, Kaleil Isaza Tuzman, went on to become a convicted felon as of 2017.

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Re:Ask HN: Good Documentaries on Startup Failures? by runawaybottle on Thursday July 16, 2020 @01:13PM (#23861138)

Woah, in that case I might have to watch this all over again.

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