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[Michael S Czeiszperger <czei AT webperformanceinc.com>]

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On Thursday 30 August 2001 03:25 pm, you wrote:
> how many here have seen startup.com http://www.startupdotcom-themovie.com/
> (the www site is silly and sparse) which was at the doubletake film fest
> back in may?
> has it already passed thru the triangle? if not it would make a great
> rocky-horror-like feature to attend as a group. the film, according to a
> friend who saw it on both coasts, had folks in shock in DC but was treated
> as a comedy in santa barbara.
> http://www.salon.com/ent/movies/review/2001/05/11/startup/ for a review in
> salon

I saw it with my wife, and we were the only ones in the theatre laughing. The 
other 10 patrons seemed to be college students, so that may have explained 
the difference.

For some reason the situation of someone getting millions of dollars in 
venture money, hiring hundreds of employees, and then making said employees 
drive all night out to the woods so they can listen quietly to the trees 
seemed really funny.  The editing is great, as you get to see the young 
founder's speech, and then the camera very slowly pans to each of the 
employee's bloodshot eyes as they stare at the founder, then the trees, then 
the founder, etc, wondering what the hell they're doing in the middle of the 
woods at 9AM!


> i think of this as i spent last night watching the PBS revenge of the
> nerds follow-up in which the host robert cringely gushes over startups
> whilst dissing slightly the internet founders as career scientists who
> never made a penny on their ideas. the film certainly views differently
> today than back when cringely made it...
>
This *#&@(&#% attitude pisses me off.  If there's one thing I can't stand is 
people forgetting the fact that the internet was invented by non profits, and 
the only reason the web took off was that it was open and free. 

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Michael S Czeiszperger
czei AT webperformanceinc.com

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