After watching Startup.com in class, I thought the documentary was crazy. The movie followed two young entrepreneurs, Kaleil and Tom who were very young and new to the "get rich" lifestyle. I thought the show did a great job of presenting the lifestyle very realistically, whether it be choosing their company name or visiting many different venture capitalists. Kaleil and Tom decided to launch a new website called govWorks.com. The success is all good for a while but then a failed trip to Silicon Valley sets them up for doom. This show really focused on the Internet revolution and how inflated ideals and dreams of instant wealth were affected by reality and tons and tons and tons of broken promises. The crisis in this documentary is showed from many different peoples perspective and that kind of enhances how big of an issue and how serious the crisis really was.
I really liked seeing how two young friends from high school had an idea of creating a website and how they pursued that. This movie basically tracked the rise and fall of govWorks.com and the trials the business brought to the relationship of these two best friends. In this company they created, Kaleil was the one who raised the money and Tom was the technical chief. Throughout the movie, a third party wanted to buy out their company but they decided they didn't want to do that. The movie has some very stressful moments, especially with always needing cash and for the competitiveness from other companies in improving their website. It was cool to see all the success and the failures in this movie and overall, I liked to see what it was like back then.
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